Daily News Tuesday, October 13, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788 % Administrator Goldin stresses economic pressures in State of Agency message; % Search for extraterrestrial civilizations gets underway in Calif. & Puerto Rico; % KSC processing team closing out Columbia for next Thursday's STS-52 launch; % Langley to open facilities Saturday to public as part of 75th anniversary celebration. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Administrator Daniel Goldin this morning addressed NASA employees with his "state of the agency" message, saying the agency was facing tremendous challenges. Goldin pointed out that in earlier decades NASA's goals were in complete alignment with the will of the American people and the direction of the Congress but that with the changes in world politics and the economic pressures facing everyone NASA was a little bit adrift. Goldin told employees that it was important to understand where we had come from, what are the real issues we face and what are the possibilities for the future. Goldin said that after being here for six months, he was convinced that the talent pool at NASA is second to none in the world. Goldin said that with a shared vision, NASA could be the force that could catalyze tremendous change. The address will be repeated on NASA Select television at 12:00 noon, 4:00 and 8:00 pm EDT and again at midnight. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NASA yesterday began the most comprehensive search ever conducted for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. The search will use California's Goldstone Deep Space Network station and also the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The project is called the High Resolution Microwave Survey and consists of two parts P the Targeted Search, which will use the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center's huge dish at Arecibo, and the Sky Survey, which will use the 34-meter dish at Goldstone. The searches will use radio telescope antennas to "listen" to stars for non-random radio noise P much like someone tuning a radio listens for a station between the static. The Targeted Search will be searching about 1,000 nearby stars similar to our Sun; the Sky Survey will survey the entire sky. The radio telescope signals will be fed to highly sophisticated signal analyzer systems which can scan frequencies from 1,000 to 10,000 megaHertz in seconds. The program is managed by the Ames Research Center, with support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Solar System Exploration Division. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Kennedy Space Center technicians are in the process of closing out Columbia's aft engine compartment today. The team completed the hypergolic fuel loading over the weekend. External tank purges will occur this Thursday. The payload bay doors are scheduled to be closed next Monday, October 19, in preparation for Thursday's launch. The launch window opens on Oct. 22 at 11:16 am EDT and remains open through 2:21 pm EDT. The mission is scheduled as a 9-day mission with a nominal end-of-mission landing at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Langley Research Center is inviting the public to share in the celebration of its 75th anniversary this coming Saturday, Oct. 17. The center will open up all its facilities to the public with tours of the wind tunnels, flight simulators, and acoustic and robotics laboratories. The facilities will all be operational to some degree so visitors can experience a little of what the Langley engineers and scientists do when they are engaged in development and testing activities. In addition to the facility tours, Langley will have on display the National AeroSpace Plane mockup and other research aircraft depicting future aeronautics concepts. Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live. Tuesday, October 13, 1992 12:00 pm NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin addresses employees with "State of the Agency" remarks (taped at 9:30 this morning). 4:00 pm Repeat playback of "State of the Agency" remarks from Administrator Daniel Goldin. 8:00 pm Repeat playback of "State of the Agency" remarks from Administrator Daniel Goldin. 12:00 am Repeat playback of "State of the Agency" remarks from Administrator Daniel Goldin. This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through Friday. It is a service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs. The editor is Charles Redmond, 202/453-8425 or CREDMOND on NASAmail. NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.