Daily News Friday, October 2, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788 % STS-52 dress rehearsal concludes in Florida, mission slated for Oct. 22; % Administrator Goldin awards astronaut John Young Leadership Medal; % Disadvantaged business association gives Goldin its meritorious award. The STS-52 Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, a dress rehearsal for flight crew and launch and mission controllers, concluded with a simulated liftoff of the orbiter this morning at 11:00 am EDT. The mission is presently targeted for the third week of October, tentatively Thursday, Oct. 22. The Office of Space Flight formal Flight Readiness Review is set to take place at Kennedy Space Center next Tuesday, Oct. 6. At the conclusion of that review, flight management will issue a firm launch target date. The mission is a nine day science and engineering flight with one major deployable and several onboard payloads. The major deployable payload is the U.S.-Italian Laser Geodynamics Satellite, LAGEOS II, which will be deployed and subsequently boosted by its attached apogee kick motor into a 52-degree inclination orbit. The satellite consists of a sphere with 426 embedded light reflectors. Using ground-based telescopes to aim laser light at the satellite will enable geodynamic scientists to better understand the motions of the continental plates. The Canadian Space Agency will be flying two separate sets of experiments and a payload specialist - Steve MacLean - on this mission. The CSA Space Vision System will be tested by STS-52 crewmembers using the orbiter's robot arm to maneuver a target in front of the Vision System camera. The system is being developed to assist astronauts who would be using any of the proposed manipulation systems being considered for Space Station Freedom. MacLean will be the third astronaut from the CSA to have flown on a shuttle mission. The first, Patrick Baudry, flew on Discovery in June 1985 on the STS-51G mission. Roberta Bondar was next, flying on last January's STS-42 mission, again aboard Discovery. (On Wednesday, Daily News erroneously reported MacLean would be the second CSA astronaut to fly.) Other payloads scheduled for the STS-52 mission include the first flight of pallet-mounted experiments for the U.S. Microgravity Payload 1, an Attitude Sensor Package mounted on a Hitchhiker carrier also in the payload bay, a heat pipe technology experiment and additional crew physiological experiments. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Administrator Daniel Goldin yesterday awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal to astronaut John Young in a ceremony held at NASA Headquarters. Goldin said "today, we're here to honor one of NASA's finest and an authentic American hero if there ever was one." Young first flew in space on the first Gemini mission in 1962. He later flew around the moon on the Apollo 10 mission and later still, landed on the moon on Apollo 17 in 1972. In 1983 Young and Robert Crippen test flew the Columbia on the first shuttle mission. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The National Association of Small Disadvantaged Business yesterday awarded NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin its Meritorious Award for opening up NASA to minority businesses. Goldin had previously also won the association's award during his period as CEO of the TRW Space & Technology Group. The association president, Henry Wilfong, said that while they considered Goldin's performance at TRW to have been worthy of recognition, "we feel your performance to date at NASA indicates that your performance as Administrator will be of even more note and benefit to minority firms throughout America." Goldin has taken a number of steps to speed NASA's involvement in America's minority business community including creating a Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee and establishing firm percentages of NASA's business to be contracted with minority firms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live. Friday, October 2, 1992 Live 12:00 pm NASA Today news program, today featuring a report on the dress rehearsal for the upcoming STS-52 mission and a preview of the mission's experiments; a story on the enshrinement of astronaut Joe Engle into the Aerospace Walk of Honor; and a story about a Mississippi space tug. 12:15 pm Adventures in Research. 12:30 pm Regenerative Processes. 1:00 pm Testimony by Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Exploration before Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (taped 10/1/92). 4:00 pm 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight - NASA Today and subsequent programming repeat. This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through Friday. It is a service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs. The editor is Charles Redmond, 202/453-8425 or CREDMOND on NASAmail. NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.