For Release: Oct. 15, 1996

Dom Amatore
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 205/544-0031)

RELEASE: 96-172

NOTE TO EDITORS: AUDIO TRACK FROM X-33 VIDEO

Enclosed is the audio portion of a NASA video on the X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator, a half-scale prototype launch vehicle being developed under a partnership between NASA and Lockheed Martin. The audio track from the 8 1/2 minute video titled "X-33: The Stepping Stone to the Future" is provided for your information and use.

The audio tape features comments on the X-33 program from T.K. Mattingly, former Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut and Lockheed Martin’s vice president for reusable launch vehicles, and Gene Austin, NASA’s X-33 program manager.

A press kit containing NASA news releases on the program, as well as a still photo and one-page fact sheet, was sent to your organization last week under separate cover. If you did not receive one, please notify Icle Blankenship at Marshall’s Public Affairs Office, 205/544-0031.

For more information on the X-33 program, visit the program’s Web site at http://rlv.msfc.nasa.gov, or contact: Dr. Dominic Amatore, Public Affairs Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812. Phone: 205/544-0031.