Xref: utzoo sci.space:15397 sci.space.shuttle:4019 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: NASA Headline News (Forwarded) Message-ID: <2141@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 9 Nov 89 19:05:01 GMT Sender: news@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 55 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 9, 1989 audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA headline news for Thursday, November 9.... Office of Space Flight and Space Station employees at NASA headquarters were briefed on the formal consolidation of the two organizations yesterday. The newly formed Office of Space Flight is headed by Dr. William B. Lenoir. George Abbey will serve as deputy associate administrator. The space flight organization now includes four major areas: space shuttle, space station Freedom, space flight systems and human resources and institutions. NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency personnel at Dryden Flight research facility at Edwards Air Force Base are conducting taxi tests and a captive flight of the NASA-B-52/Pegasus air launched orbital booster today. The flight is the first of two that will qualify the project for its initial orbital flight mission. Video tape highlights of today's test will be broadcast over NASA Select TV at 4:00 p.m. ,eastern time, today. The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite...or COBE...is ready to be launched from Space Launch Complex 2-West at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., November 17. A media briefing will be held at Jet Propulsion Laboratory next Tuesday prior to the launch. Both events will be broadcast over NASA Select TV. The Washington Times says a Maryland communications satellite company...CONTEL ASC...has sued NASA for $70 million, "charging that the Space Agency breached a 1984 contract to launch Contel's ASC-2 communication satellite on the space shuttle". The suit was filed in late September to recover the difference between the cost of a commercial and a shuttle launch. Final preparations for the launch of the DOD STS-33 mission November 20 continue at Kennedy Space Center. As on previous DOD missions, NASA Select Television will provide only launch and landing video of the event. Although a four hour launch period opens at 6:30 p.m., eastern time, the exact time of the launch is classified. Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 301-355 | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Dr. | Pasadena, CA 91109 |