SP -- SPACE TRANSPORTATION DAY Marshall Space Flight Center will hold Space Transportation Day (STDay) on October 27-28, 1999 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The event will start at 8:30 AM with badging/check-in at 7:30AM on October 27, 1999. The purpose of STDay is to provide an interactive dialogue on NASA's future plans and roadmaps for new space transportation activities (e.g., Spaceliner) and current space transportation programs and projects (e.g., X-33, X-34, X-37, ASTP.) For more information and to register for STDay, logon the World Wide Web (www) at http://stday.msfc.nasa.gov by October 18, 1999. Background: the US space program is facing a growing challenge to its decades-long, global leadership position, as current launch costs consume valuable resources and limit achievements in science, exploration, and commercial development. To enable NASA to conduct better, faster, and cheaper programs; and, the commercial sector to flourish in space endeavors; the primary, overarching, continuing goal of NASA's space transportation programs is to significanlty increase the saftey and reliability of space transportation while dramatically reducing the cost of space transportation systems. WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/date.html#8-1-9-TD-00000. E-MAIL: Mark R. Stiles, mark.stiles@msfc.nasa.gov. Posted 09/16/99 (D-SN381022).

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