Brian Dunbar
Headquarters, Washington, DC                     September 10, 1999
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

Heather Mirjahangir
Office of Congressman Matt Salmon
(Phone: 202/225-2635)

Nicole Harry
Office of National Drug Control Policy
(Phone: 202/395-6647)

NASA JOINS CONGRESS, U.S. DRUG CONTROL OFFICE
IN DEPLOYING INTERNET SITE TO FIGHT DRUG USE

NOTE TO EDITORS N99-49

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin will join former astronaut
Buzz Aldrin, Congressman Matt Salmon of Arizona, Sen. Chuck
Grassley of Iowa and Barry McCaffrey, Director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, in unveiling a new World Wide Web
site designed to steer children away from drugs.

     Reporters are invited to attend the unveiling at 2:30 p.m.
Sept. 13 at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, 400 E. St. NE, Washington,
DC. Mr. Goldin and the other principals will make brief remarks to
the assembled students, then help students navigate the Web site.

     Also addressing the students will be Astronaut Eileen Collins,
the first woman to command a U.S. space mission, who will attend
with other members of the STS-93 crew.

     In July, NASA became the first federal agency to include anti-
drug messages on its Web site. Since then, the Office of National
Drug Control Policy has worked with 18 agencies and departments to
add similar messages to their sites.

     The new Web site, a joint project of NASA and the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, will include messages from astronauts
about the dangers of drug use and a place for students to register
their names for a CD-ROM that may eventually fly aboard the
International Space Station. The site will be accessible from the
NASA Web site:

http://www.nasa.gov

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