Sue Mathis Richard
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(Phone:  202/453-8364)                       September 11, 1991


RELEASE:  91-146

PRESIDENT BUSH TO ADDRESS STUDENTS ON NASA SELECT TV


     President Bush will join NASA Administrator Richard Truly 
for a back-to-school special on NASA Select TV on Sept. 17 at 2 
p.m. EDT.

     "Launching the School Year with President Bush" is aimed at 
the elementary grades.  The 1-hour program will originate from 
Washington, D.C., and La Porte, Texas.  President Bush will speak 
to students and teachers about America 2000 and the national 
education goals, and third and fourth grade students gathered in 
both locations will have the opportunity to ask the President 
questions.  They also will participate in a unique math and 
science "lesson" led by Astronauts Charlie Bolden in Washington 
and Tammy Jernigan in La Porte, Texas, as well as aerospace 
education specialist Lisa McLeod.

     McLeod, one of 35 teachers nicknamed "Spacemobilers", will 
bring one of NASA's oldest and most popular education programs to 
nationwide television for the first time.  Astronauts Bolden and 
Jernigan will narrate footage from their Shuttle missions, 
bringing to life the aerospace lecture on living and working in 
space.  

     Making up the audience at NASA Headquarters in Washington 
will be 17 national winners of the NASA/National Science Teachers 
Association's Space Science Student Involvement Program (SSIP).  
As SSIP winners, they have created projects ranging from 
proposals for experiments on Space Station Freedom to designs for 
an outpost on the moon.

     NASA Select, the television service of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, now offers educational and 
informational programming in addition to complete mission 
coverage and press events.  The 2 p.m. EDT time slot is dedicated 
to programming suitable for classroom use, specifically aimed at 
inspiring young people to achieve in math and science.

                           - more  -
                                     
                            - 2  -


     NASA Select is transmitted on SatCom F2R, transponder 13, C 
Band, 72 degrees West longitude, frequency 3954.5 MHz, vertical 
polarization, audio on 6.8 MHz.

     "Launching the School Year with President Bush" also will be 
broadcast live on local PBS stations throughout the country.




                           - end  -