Terri Sindelar

Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

(Phone: 202/453-8400) September 14, 1990

RELEASE: 90-123

MISSION TO PLANET EARTH FEATURED IN EDUCATION VIDEO

BROADCAST

NASA's Educational Affairs Division will broadcast via

satellite the first in a series of four live, educational video
conferences on October 2, launching the 1990-91 series.

The first conference will discuss the Mission to Planet

Earth program, a major international effort to study the Earth's
atmosphere, resources, oceans, land surface, climate and weather.
The goal of the program is to gain a scientific understanding of
the Earth as an interactive system, examining such issues as
global warming and ozone depletion, to develop a basis for
informed decisions on protecting the planet's future.

Dr. Shelby Tilford, Director of NASA's Earth Science and

Applications Division, Washington, D.C., will discuss a variety
of topics related to global change, Earth Observing System and
the Mission to Planet Earth program.

This year more than 30,000 educators in 50 states are

expected to participate in the highly successful series, now in
its fifth year.

These 1-1/2 hour, interactive video conferences are designed

to update teachers on NASA programs, demonstrate aerospace
activities for the classroom and announce new programs, products
and activities available to classroom teachers. The nation's
participating school districts will receive transmissions from
2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.

The 1990-91 video conference schedule is:

Mission to Planet Earth - Oct. 2, 1990

Astro-1 Shuttle mission - Nov. 27, 1990

Space Science in the Classroom (SEEDS) - Jan. 29, 1991

Hubble Space Telescope - April 2, 1991

The Oct. 2 conference will be transmitted on Westar IV,

channel 11. There is no charge for registration or participation
in the video conference.

The satellite video conference series is produced by NASA's

Aerospace Education Services Project from the Oklahoma State
University Telecommunications Center.

To register for the series, interested teachers should write

to NASA Aerospace Education Services Project, Videoconference
Site, 300 North Cordell, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
Okla., 74078-0422, or call 405/744-7015. Registration ensures
that announcements, publications and other materials for
teacher-participants are received by the school.

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