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All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
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Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
NASA Television Selects Top 10 Stories In 1999
January 6, 2000 ::
NASA TV provides real-time coverage of NASA missions and activities. It also functions as a resource to the media, and delivers educational programming to teachers, students
and the general public. Here are NASA TV's Top 10 Stories in 1999.
- First Female Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins
Commander Eileen Collins |
Announcement of Selection as Commander at White House (first aired 7/14/99) Shuttle suit-up and liftoff (first aired July 1999) On orbit and releasing Chandra (first aired July 1999) Commander Collins with Family - JSC (first aired 7/15/99)
Chandra X-Ray Telescope Takes Its First Picture
- Chandra X-Ray Telescope Launches
First Light: Cassiopeia A
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KSC (first aired 1/14/99) Chandra First Light first image (first aired 8/26/99)
- First Gamma Ray Burst Captred STSCI
Gamma Ray images and animation of event (first aired 1/23/99)
- First Docking of the Shuttle with the ISS
STS-96 Mission Highlights (first aired 5/4/99)
- Mars Global Surveyor Explores the Red Planet
MGS Deploys Antenna, great pics - JPL (first aired 3/29/99, 8/10/99) MGS Sees "Heart" on Mars - JPL (first aired 6/25/99) Magnetic Stripes Discovered on Mars - JPL (first aired 4/29/99) MOLA First 3-D view of Mars - JPL (first aired 5/27/99, 12/1/99)
- NASA Launches 3 Major Earth Observing Spacecraft Including the EOS Flagship Terra.
Terra launch and b-roll (first aired 12/20/99)
- NASA Scientist Study Climate and Its Effects
La Nina and mapping its effects - GSFC (first aired 9/10/99) El Nino/La Nina TOPEX update - JPL (first aired 12/8/99) Iceberg Watch - JPL (first aired 9/3/99)
- First X-34 Captive Carry
X-34 Captive carry - DFRC (first aired 6/29/99) X-34 Animation - DFRC/body MSFC/engine (first aired 8/24/99)
- Making Air Travel Safer for Americans
Future Flight Central - ARC (first aired 12/10/99) Airborne Information for Lateral Spacing - LARC (first aired 11/8/99)
- New Microrobot May Assist Crew in Space
Personal Satellite Assistant - ARC (first aired 9/8/99)
