HEADLINE NEWS Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters Friday, June 7, 1991 Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788 This is NASA Headline News for Friday, June 7, 1991 . . . The House of Representatives voted yesterday 240 to 173 to restore $1.9 billion in funding for Space Station Freedom. The measure which the House passed will limit NASA's other programs to a funding level equal to FY 91 figures. Agency Administrator Richard Truly responded by saying the "bipartisan vote...was a big victory for all America," but that much work remains to be done to provide a final 1992 NASA budget which is balanced. Truly said he was confident the station would win support in the Senate. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Spacelab Life Sciences-1 crew completed their second day, the first full day, of scientific activities, and have been able to maintain their very aggressive timeline. Science data obtained yesterday included the first pulmonary function tests ever taken in space. The lung-function test was delayed slightly while SLS crewmembers and ground controllers resolved problems with a reluctant mass spectrometer -- essential to the test. That instrument is now working fine. At yesterday's mission science briefing, SLS-1 officials reported that they are very pleased with the data being obtained so far and that the crew acts and appears to be doing very well. The SLS-1 payloads officer reports that the rats in the animal holding facility also appear healthy and seem to be acting normally. On the orbiter front, Johnson Space Center controllers and engineers have been investigating the detached payload bay door seal situation, which was discovered following a camera survey of the payload bay area. JSC reports that they have not yet reached a decision as to whether or not any crew action, spacewalk or otherwise, is required. In the meantime, the payload planning group at both Houston and Huntsville are evaluating plans for adjusting the life sciences activity timeline in the event a spacewalk is required. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight controllers report that Magellan continues to perform well. The spacecraft is now 96-orbits into a new radar mapping sequence which will help provide stereographic radar views of Venus' southern hemisphere. JPL also reports that Galileo is now 68 million miles from home, making the two-way communication period over 12 minutes. Except for the partially-deployed high-gain antenna situation, controllers report that Galileo is performing well. Mission management notes that for the next 9 or so months the spacecraft will undergo a gradual cooling as it moves in an ellipse outward from the Sun. After that period, Galileo will begin warming again as it moves along its ellipse in toward the Sun. Spacecraft warming is one of the current methodologies being explored by JPL project engineers as a fix for the antenn deployment. JPL reports that meanwhile, even further from home, Ulysses is performing normally with solar corona investigations currently being performed. Ulysses is now more than 354 million miles from Earth and approaching Jupiter at a rate of 47,000 miles per hour. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The launch of the Orbital Science Corp. Prospector vehicle with the Joust-1 payload atop has been reset for no earlier than Sunday, June 9, at 7:00 am EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 20. Current weather forecast for tomorrow morning calls for a 60 percent probability of violating a launch constraint. The Joust-1 payload comprises 10 materials and biotechnology experiments, which will be hoisted 380 miles into space by the Prospector and then recovered. The flight will allow for 13 minutes of weightlessness. The mission is sponsored by the University of Alabama/Huntsville. 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. indicates a program is transmitted live. A reminder: Two-hour edited programs of each flight day's activities will be replayed for Hawaii and Alaska at 12 am. EDT on Spacenet 1, transponder 18. The look angle for the Spacenet transponder is 120 degrees West longitude, at a frequency of 4060.8 MHz. Friday, 6/7/91 12:08 pm Particulate contamination test from Spacelab. 3:00 pm "Today in Space" program with astronauts Dunbar and Gibson from JSC. 3:47 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 4:00 pm Mission status briefing with mission manager, flight director representatives from JSC. 4:30 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 9:30 pm Replay of STS-40 Flight Day 3 activities. Saturday, 6/8/91 5:20 am Body mass measurements from Spacelab. 8:50 am Pulmonary function test from Spacelab. 10:52 am Lymphocyte proliferation testing from Spacelab. 3:00 pm "Today in Space" program with astronauts Dunbar and Gibson from JSC. 4:00 pm Mission status briefing with mission manager, flight director representatives from JSC. 9:30 pm Replay of STS-40 Flight Day 4 activities. Sunday, 6/9/91 5:35 am Body mass measurements from Spacelab. 7:00 am Rescheduled launch of Joust-1 mission from CCAFS. 8:20 am Body mass measurements from Spacelab. 9:35 am Pulmonary function test from Spacelab. 11:00 am Venous occlusion plethysmography measurements from Spacelab. 1:00 pm Middeck activities from Columbia. 1:53 pm Venous occlusion plethysmography measurements from Spacelab. 2:52 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 3:00 pm "Today in Space" program with astronauts Dunbar and Gibson from JSC. 3:30 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 4:00 pm Mission status briefing with mission manager, flight director representatives from JSC. 5:42 pm Rodent health check from Spacelab. 9:30 pm Replay of STS-40 Flight Day 5 activities. Monday, 6/10/91 8:43 am Rotating dome experiment from Spacelab. 9:15 am Rotating dome experiment from Spacelab. 11:10 am Venous occlusion plethysmography measurements from Spacelab. 1:38 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 1:57 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 2:33 pm Flight deck activities from Columbia. 3:00 pm "Today in Space" program with astronauts Dunbar and Gibson from JSC. 3:34 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 4:00 pm Mission status briefing with mission manager, flight director representatives from JSC. 4:50 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 5:45 pm Ergometry from Spacelab. 9:30 pm Replay of STS-40 Flight Day 6 activities. This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through Friday. It is a service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs. The contact 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 is offset 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.