Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington, DC             February 8, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1761)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N01-07

AEROSPACE SAFETY ADVISORY PANEL PRESENTS REPORT TO NASA

     The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) presents its annual 
report to NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin at 1:00 p.m. EST 
on Thursday, Feb. 8.

The report will be presented to the Administrator in the 
Program Review Center, room 9H40, NASA Headquarters, 300 E 
Street SW, Washington, DC.

Each year, the panel reviews and evaluates current and future 
NASA programs and activities and reports its findings to the 
Administrator in a public session.  Priority is given to 
programs that involve the safety of human flight.

"At present, safety is being well served by both NASA and its 
contractors," said Richard D. Blomberg, Chair of the Aerospace 
Safety Advisory Panel. "The past year provided several 
laudable examples of decisions that clearly placed safety 
ahead of schedule and cost."

Following the Apollo spacecraft fire on Jan. 27, 1967, 
Congress enacted legislation to establish the ASAP as a senior 
safety advisory panel to NASA.

The ASAP report will be available at 2:30 p.m. via the World 
Wide Web at: 

       http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/codeq-1.htm

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