For Release: Feb. 29, 1996

Steve Roy
Office of Media Services
(205) 544-0034
steve.roy@msfc.nasa.gov

NOTE TO ASSIGNMENT EDITORS/PRODUCERS: 96-14N

SPACELAB NEWS CENTER HOURS ADJUSTED
FOR UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY PAYLOAD MISSION

Beginning Friday, March 1, NASA’s United States Microgravity Payload News Center in Trailer 254 at the Marshall Center will be open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and weekends from 7 a.m. to noon, for the duration of the mission. News Center telephone numbers are (205) 544-6381 and (205) 544-0034.

For the rest of the flight, the Marshall News Center will issue one written status report at 6 a.m. daily. The report will be available on the Internet through the Marshall Center payload homepage at http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.

gov.spacelab/STS-75 or in the "Payloads" portion of the mission "Overview" section of the NASA Shuttle Web homepage at http://

shuttle.nasa.gov. The status reports will also be available on the NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Internet Bulletin Board address at ftp.pao.hq.nasa.gov. Media desiring to receive the status reports by telefax should contact the News Center. Media may also access an audio recording of each status report by calling (205) 544-6397.