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NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and Astronaut Winston Scott Visit Alanta Area Schools

Roderic Olvera Young
Headquarters, Washington, DC                     February 25, 1998
(Phone:  202/358-4726)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N98-22

NASA ADMINISTRATOR DANIEL S. GOLDIN AND ASTRONAUT 
WINSTON SCOTT VISIT ATLANTA AREA SCHOOLS

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and Astronaut Winston 
Scott will join Representative Cynthia McKinney on visits to the 
Fernbank Science Center, Southwest DeKalb High School, and 
Chamblee High School, on Friday, Feb. 27.  Goldin will discuss his 
vision for the future of space exploration and Scott will recount 
his recent Space Shuttle mission. 

9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.      Fernbank Science Center
                          156 Heaton Park Drive, NE
                          Atlanta, GA  
                          tel:  404/378-4708
10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.     Southwest DeKalb High School
                          2863 Kelly Chapel Road
                          Decatur, GA  30034
                          tel:  404/288-2461
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.     Stephenson High School
                          701 Stephenson Road
                          Stone Mountain, GA  30087
                          tel:  770/469-1875

     Daniel S. Goldin became the ninth NASA Administrator in April 
1992.  Highlights of his tenure include: (1) the inauguration of 
the Discovery Program, a new class of planetary probes designed 
and developed in less than three years with mission costs of less 
than $150 million; (2) the initiation of significant new 
cooperative endeavors with the Russian Space Agency; (3) the 
redesign of the Space Station program in order to significantly 
cut costs without sacrificing meaningful science or technology 
development capability; and (4) balancing the Agency's programs to 
ensure Earth Science, Space Science and Aeronautics achieve their 
respective goals and missions, while achieving new efficiencies in 
the Human Space Flight program.

     Before receiving his Presidential appointment to NASA, Goldin 
was Vice President and General Manager of the TRW Space & 
Technology Group in Redondo Beach, CA.  He is a Fellow in the 
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow in 
the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering.  In 1993, he 
received the John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award from the American 
Astronautical Society and the Space Pioneer Award from the 
National Space Society.

     Winston E. Scott (Captain, USN) graduated from Coral Gables 
High School, Coral Gables, FL, in 1968; received a bachelor of 
arts degree in music from Florida State University in 1972; and a 
master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. 
Naval Postgraduate School in 1980. 

     As a research and development project pilot, he flew the F-
14, F/A-18 and A-7 aircraft.  Scott has accumulated more than 
4,000 hours of flight time in 20 different military and civilian 
aircraft, and more than 200 shipboard landings.

     Scott was selected as an astronaut by NASA in March 1992 and 
reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992.  He served as 
a mission specialist on STS-72 in 1996 and STS-87 in 1997, and has 
logged a total of 24 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes in space, 
including 3 spacewalks totaling 19 hours and 26 minutes.

     More information about NASA can be found via the Internet via 
URL:  

                     http://www.nasa.gov

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