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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Shuttle mission STS-39 preflight briefings scheduled (Forwarded)
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Date: 14 Jan 91 22:55:43 GMT
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Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                   January 14, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8536)

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone:  713/483-5111)


EDITORS NOTE:  N91-3

SHUTTLE MISSION STS-39 PREFLIGHT BRIEFINGS SCHEDULED


     A series of preflight briefings for mission STS-39, the 
first unclassified Department of Defense Space Shuttle flight, 
will be held Jan. 23 and 24, 1991, at the Johnson Space Center, 
Houston.

     Lead Flight Director Ronald D. Dittemore will begin the 
briefings on the 23rd at 9:30 a.m. EST with a mission overview.  
DOD payload briefings will begin at 11 a.m. EST.  The STS-39 
astronauts will present information on their individual flight 
assignments at 2 p.m. EST.

     On Jan. 24, beginning at 2 p.m. EST, the astronaut crew will 
be available for round robin interviews.  Media representatives 
wishing to participate in the interviews should notify the JSC 
newsroom by the afternoon of Jan. 17.

     Only the briefings will be carried on NASA Select 
television.  Two-way audio for questions and answers will be 
available at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and other NASA 
centers. 

     NASA Select programming is carried on Satcom F2R, 
transponder 13, located at 72 degrees west longitude.