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News Release
Office of News and Information
212 Whitehead Hall / 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160 / Fax (410) 516-5251
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February 16, 1995
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Emil Venere
esv@resource.ca.jhu.edu
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Launch Party Celebrates Hopkins
Astronaut, Telescope in Space
"Let's Do Launch: Hopkins in Space," a send-off party and
live television viewing of the launch of the space shuttle
Endeavour, will be held Wednesday, March 1, beginning at 11 p.m.,
in Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center for Physics and
Astronomy, on the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will
be available.
The centerpiece of the 16-day space mission will be the
Astro-2 Observatory and its Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT),
which Hopkins research scientist Sam Durrance will operate from
space as an Endeavour payload specialist.
Nolan R. Walborn, astronomer with the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, will serve as commentator for
"Let's Do Launch." Dr. Walborn is a guest investigator on the HUT
project.
Prior to the launch, scheduled for Thursday, March 2, at
1:36 a.m., a videotape highlighting the accomplishments of Dr.
Durrance and the HUT team during the 1990 Astro-1 mission will be
shown. Guided tours of the Bloomberg observatory will also be
offered (weather permitting).
HUT's primary task is to search for the helium created by
the Big Bang, which many scientists believe marked the birth of
the universe 10 billion to 20 billion years ago. More than two
dozen Hopkins scientists, students and support staff, led by
astrophysicist Arthur F. Davidsen, will support mission
operations and analyze data collected. During the mission, the
science team will work from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, Ala.
Directions to Bloomberg Center:
From the north: From Beltway Exit 25, take Charles
Street
south for approximately seven miles. Pass the university on the
right, then turn right onto Art Museum Drive. Turn right onto
Wyman Park Drive.
From the south: From Beltway Exit 52, take Russell
Street
north. Stay on Russell until the exit marked Martin Luther King
Jr. Boulevard, which will be on your right. Continue on Martin
Luther King until it ends at Howard Street. Turn left and proceed
on Howard for approximately two miles. One block past 29th
Street, make a left turn at the traffic island onto Wyman Park
Drive.
Parking:
Free parking for "Let's Do Launch" will be available at the
following locations on the Homewood campus:
Bloomberg parking garage - the garage is adjacent to the
Bloomberg Center on San Martin Drive. From Wyman Park Drive, turn
right onto San Martin Drive to the second campus entrance, just
past the Bloomberg Center. Turn right into the garage.
Bloomberg parking lot - From Wyman Park Drive, turn right
onto San Martin Drive. Just past the entrance to the parking
garage, turn right into the parking lot (next to a construction
site).
Hopkins Club parking lot - From Wyman Park Drive, turn right
onto San Martin Drive to the first campus entrance. Turn right,
then take the first right into the Club lot. The Bloomberg Center
is directly to the north of the lot.
NOTE: For information about the Astro-2 mission,
reporters can call Emil Venere (410) 516-7906. Mission updates
will be recorded and made available on the HUTline,
(410) 516-6899.
Johns Hopkins University news releases can be found on the
World Wide Web at
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/
Information on automatic e-mail delivery
of science and medical news releases is available at the
same address.
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