NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Dec. 23, 1998

Media Advisory 98-101

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

NASA SELECTS INVESTIGATIONS FOR JAPANESE SOLAR-B MISSION

NASA Video File for Dec. 23, 1998

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NASA SELECTS INVESTIGATIONS FOR JAPANESE SOLAR-B MISSION

NASA today announced selection of three investigations

to be flown on Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science (ISAS) Solar-B mission planned for launch in 2004.
The Solar-B program will be a multilateral international
collaboration including Japan, the United States, and the
United Kingdom. The objective of Solar-B is to study the
origin of the Sun's outer atmosphere; the corona; and the
coupling between the fine magnetic structure at the Sun's
surface, the photosphere, and the dynamic processes occurring
in the corona.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1547.

Full text available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-227.txt

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Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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NASA VIDEO FILE FOR DEC. 23, 1998

ITEM 1: ITEM 1: TRACE Looks at the Sun (replay)

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:

Wade Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage
202/358-1727.

ITEM 2: NASA'S Top 10 Video Files of 1998 (replay)

1: JOHN GLENN RETURNS TO SPACE

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen

Hawley
281/483-5111.
 2: BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: James

Hartsfield
281/483-5111.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne Brown
202/358-
1726.

3: HUBBLE VIEWS POSSIBLE PLANET OUTSIDE MILKY WAY

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD:

Ray
Villard 410/338-4514.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage:
202/358-
1727.

4: GAMMA RAY BLAST RIVALS BIG BANG

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:

Bill
Steigerwald 301/286-5017.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage
202/358-
1727.

5: LUNAR PROSPECTOR FINDS ICE ON MOON

Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA:

David
Morse 650/604-4724.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug Isbell
202/358-
1753.

6: EL NINO/LA NINA CAUSE SEVERE WEATHER

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:

Mary
Hardin 818/354-0344.
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:
Wade
Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dave Steitz
202/358-
1730.

7: ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE BIGGEST YET

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:

Wade
Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dave Steitz
202/358-
1730.

8: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER MAGNETAR

Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL:
Tim
Tyson 256/544-0994.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage
202/358-
1727.

9: SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE REACHES ALTITUDE RECORD

Contact at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA:

Fred
Brown 805/258-2663.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Mike Braukus
202/358-
1979.

10: EILEEN COLLINS NAMED FIRST FEMALE SHUTTLE COMMANDER

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen

Hawley
281/483-5111.

ITEM 3: Apollo 8 Christmas Message (replay)

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Elvia Thompson

202/358-
1696.

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