Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pioneer!eugene From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: News release of net interest Message-ID: <6687@ames.arpa> Date: 30 Mar 88 17:57:36 GMT Sender: usenet@ames.arpa Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 134 Normally, I do not forward NASA internal announcements. They have stamps like: It is intended for INTERNAL agency use only. (This line came from 1) You may think everything NASA does is in the public domain, but the public also means your neighbor's privacy (like if your neighbor is Rockwell, Boeing, etc., did I say competitors? ;-) SO when people ask to see NASA internal discussion groups, WE HAVE TO SAY NO! NOW, I know how sentimental some of you guys are, so I post this press release for you. Have a field day, and good luck. From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize." {uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene Subject: SHUTTLE ORBITER-NAMING COMPETITION ANNOUNCED Cynthia Buck NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/453-8400) March 30, 1988 Jay P. Goldman Council of Chief State School Officers (Phone: 202/393-8161) RELEASE: 88-46 SHUTTLE ORBITER-NAMING COMPETITION ANNOUNCED The National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today issued the announcement of opportunity for America's students to participate in a national competition to name NASA's replacement Space Shuttle orbiter, scheduled to make its premiere flight in early 1992. The announcement invites teachers to enter their students in the orbiter-naming competition and provides an order form for obtaining an entry packet. Entry packets with instructions, describing competition rules and judging criteria, will be available in early May. The new orbiter, designated OV 105, is under construction by Rockwell International in California and is scheduled for completion in April 1991. The announcement states, "The Orbiter-Naming Program responds to a basic human impulse to name things.... NASA's first orbiters were named after sea vessels used in research and exploration.... The tradition of naming an orbiter after an exploratory or research sea vessel will be continued with OV 105." The name chosen should not only identify an American spacecraft but also should capture the spirit of America's mission in space. In honor of the seven crew members lost in the Challenger accident, the name Challenger has been retired. To enter, elementary and secondary school students will form teams and research a name. Each team will prepare a related classroom project to support and justify the name selected. The team's project must be interdisciplinary and may serve as a pilot project for future classroom activities. Orbiter-naming projects are to be completed during the 1988 fall semester, and entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 1988. Each team will have a coordinator who must be a member of the school faculty and will be responsible for directing the team's activities and submitting the official program entry packet for judging. There will be two entry divisions: Division one will include kindergarten through 6th grade and Division two 7th through 12th grade. Students in public and private schools in the United States and U.S. territories, Department of Defense overseas dependents' schools, Department of State schools and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools are eligible to participate. Each state, territory and agency will announce one winner in each division in March 1989. NASA will announce the final winner from each division and the name selected for the orbiter in May 1989. Each entry will receive recognition for the team's participation. State, territory and agency division winners will receive special Awards of Recognition. Representatives of the national winning teams will receive an expense-paid visit to a NASA-related event. In addition, NASA's Educational Affairs Division will conduct a School Involvement Program for each of the winning schools. NASA personnel will visit the schools and classrooms, and special events will honor the students and their team coordinators, the faculty, parents and community members who guided and assisted their orbiter-naming projects. House Joint Resolution 559, introduced March 10, 1986 by Congressman Tom Lewis (R-Florida), called for the name of the replacement orbiter to be selected from suggestions submitted by students. On June 8, 1987, Dr. James C. Fletcher, administrator of NASA, announced the program for students to recommend names to NASA for the Space Shuttle orbiter to replace the Challenger. On Oct. 30, 1987, Congress authorized the NASA Administrator to select a name for the new orbiter "from among suggestions submitted by students in elementary and secondary schools." Announcements of opportunity will be distributed to elementary and secondary teachers and principals. The announcements also will be distributed to educators on NASA's Educational Affairs mailing list, to educational organizations and professional associations and to NASA field center education offices and Teacher Resource Centers. To request an entry packet for the Orbiter-Naming Program, teachers should contact: NASA Orbiter-Naming Program Council of Chief State School Officers Suite 300 400 North Capitol Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 (Phone: 202/783-5109) (202/783-5113)