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A -- SMALL EXPLORER (SMEX) PROGRAM SOL AO-99-OSS-D1 DUE 071599 POC John Lintott, Program Scientist, Phone (757) 864-9864, Fax (757) 864-8894, Email j.a.lintott@larc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/date.html#AO-99-OSS-D1. E-MAIL: John Lintott, j.a.lintott@larc.nasa.gov. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is releasing a DRAFT Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for community review and comment for the next missions in the Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Selections of proposals through the final AO, once released, are intended to provide two mission launches by July 2004. A Mission of Opportunity may also be selected. The science objectives covered by this AO include those in the currently defined Office of Space Science themes of the Astronomical Search for Origins and Planetary Systems; the Sun-Earth Connection; and the Structure and Evolution of the Universe. Participation is open to all categories of organizations, foreign and domestic, including industry, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, NASA centers, and other Government agencies. NASA welcomes critical review and comment of this DRAFT AO, which will be available from June 17, 1999, through July 15, 1999, via the World Wide Web site: http://spacescience.nasa.gov. For those not having access to the Internet, a printed copy may be obtained by written request to the address below. Send comments to Mr. John Lintott, Space Science Support Office, Mail Stop 160, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681-0001. FAX: (757) 864-8894; or E-mail: j.a.lintott@larc.nasa.gov. The identity of those submitting comments will be held in confidence. This notice constitutes a NASA Research Announcement as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). Posted 06/11/99 (D-SN342055). (0162)

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