Sports and weather make news from space

Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington August 12,
2004
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-121

SPORTS AND WEATHER MAKE NEWS FROM SPACE

The International Space Station offers a unique view of
some of the week's biggest news events. Its cameras have
captured video of the two major storms developing in the Gulf
of Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as a view of the site of
the 2004 Olympic games.

Space-based video of Tropical Storm Bonnie, Hurricane Charley
and the city of Athens, Greece, is available this week during
NASA TV Video File feeds. For information about NASA TV on the
Internet, including a schedule of feeds, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Still imagery is available online at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

The International Space Station Expedition 9 crewmembers,
Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke, captured the latest images as
they passed 230 statute miles over the Earth.

NASA will continue to monitor the storms and release images
and video as they become available.

NASA Television is available in the continental U.S. on AMC-6,
Transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 72 degrees west longitude.
The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and
audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA
Television is available on AMC-7, Transponder 18C, C-Band,
located at 137 degrees west longitude. Frequency is 4060.0
MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80
MHz.

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