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Thursday, June 7, 1990              Audio Service:  202/755-1788
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This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, June 7........


A news conference is scheduled today to discuss yesterday's 
liquid hydrogen leak test on the orbiter Columbia.  Kennedy Space 
Center technicians have isolated the location of the leak that 
caused last week's delay in the launch of Astro-1.  A decision to 
roll the Space Shuttle Columbia off launch pad 39-A and back to 
the Vehicle Assembly Building will be addressed as well as the 
potential impact on launch dates for STS-35 and future 
missions.  The conference is scheduled for 2:00 P.M. EDT.

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The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and 
its Chamber of International Commerce will sponsor Asia's largest 
telecommunications conference this November, according to Space 
Fax Daily.  Expo Comm China 90 will include developments in 
communications satellites, maritime satellite systems and related 
equipment.  The story reports the minister for the People's 
Republic of China Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said, 
the China market is projected by mid-1990 to grow at a rate of 10 
percent annually.  The government is reported to have a $22 
billion budget package to continue modernization of China's 
communications infrastructure.

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The unmanned Soviet "Kristall" module carrying supplies for the 
two cosmonauts failed to dock with the Mir space station 
yesterday, the Reuters wire service reports.  It appears a 
computer automatically shut down the docking maneuver about two 
hours ahead of schedule, according to the story.  The Soviet Tass 
news agency said the computer may have pinpointed a malfunction 
in one of the engines of the Kristall module's orientation 
system.  A second attempt may occur tomorrow.

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Columnist Jack Anderson's column discusses space debris and says 
"U.S. and Soviet officials are quietly conducting junk-reduction 
talks."  Anderson says NASA is handling the negotiation with the 
Soviets" in hopes of keeping politics out of it."

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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA 
Select TV.  All times are Eastern.


Thursday, June 7........

       11:30 A.M.             NASA Update will be transmitted.

       12:00 P.M.             Mission of Apollo/Soyuz
       12:30 P.M.             COBE
       12:45 P.M.             C.A.S.I.S. Workshop
                              (Center of Atmospheric and Space
                               Information Sciences)

        2:00 P.M.             STS Operations-Live Press Briefing
                              Launch Schedules and Priorities


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