| From: DECWRL::"[email protected]" "Louis F. Adornato" 16-MAR-1992
12:47:37.25
To: [email protected]
Subj: NASA press kits
If you'd like a press kit for the upcomming shuttle mission (STS-45?),
call (713) 483-0123, and ask for public affairs.
Once you get connected (after a nice "music on hold" interlude), ask
for a press kit for the upcomming mission. Better yet, ask for a
"personal package" (although I don't know if they'll give you one),
which includes the official crew portrait, a ground track map, and the
press kit. The press kit itself contains a diagram of the payload bay
configuration, description of all of the major and most of the minor
mission objectives, and bios on the primary crew. Mission objective
descriptions include descriptions of the hardware used, the sponsoring
agency, and the names and addresses of the principal investigator(s).
The package also contains a description of the mission patch, which can
be a pretty interesting snapshot of the flight crew's thinking. All
of this for my favorite price -- FREE.
You don't have to be a member of the press to get one of these - NASA
is all too happy to send them out to individuals, since this is about
the most the public affairs office is allowed by law in the area of
active PR. Those of you living outside the US might get a different
response, though, since NASA doesn't pay for domestic postage, and
besides, you don't vote.
As a personal favor, I'd appreciate it if everyone who does this also
tells a local science teacher about it. It'd also be nice if you
could share your press kit with a youngster.
Lou Adornato | Support for space exploration is a mile wide
Supercomputer Systems, Inc | and a micron deep
Eau Claire, WI | The secretary (and the rest of the company)
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