David C. Fair									Feb. 1, 1995
Goddard Space Flight Center 
Visitor Center
Greenbelt, Md.  20771
(301) 286-8981

Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Public Affairs
Greenbelt, Md.  20771
(301) 286-5566

Release No. 95-058

NOTE TO EDITORS:  

GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER VISITOR CENTER MARCH 
ACTIVITIES

	March is an exciting and star-filled month at the Goddard Space 
Flight Center Visitor Center.  Visitor Center activities for March include 
model rocket launches, video and lecture presentations, a star watch and 
tours of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

	The Visitor Center is located in Greenbelt, Md., on Soil Conservation 
Road.  All events are free.  For more information on these and other Visitor 
Center activities, call (301) 286-8981.  Interpreters will be provided for 
the hearing impaired with seven days' notice through TDD (301) 286-8103.

	The following are brief descriptions for inclusion in your calendar 
of events:


Sunday, March 5 and 19, 1 p.m.  

MODEL ROCKET LAUNCH

The Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center invites you to come out and 
participate in its model rocket launch program.  Model rockets will soar through 
the air Sunday, March 5 and 19.  The countdown begins at 1 p.m.  Bring your own 
rocket or just come out and enjoy watching the other rocket enthusiasts. All 
launches are monitored for safety and are held weather permitting.

Saturday, March 11, 1 p.m.

SATURDAY  VIDEOS:  "All Systems Go"

The Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center will be showing the 
video "All Systems Go" on Saturday, March 11, at 1:00 p.m.  This video 
presentation will discuss and demonstrate some of the physiologic changes 
that occur in the human body while in the microgravity environment of 
space. This video is suitable for all ages.

Saturday, March 11, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

STAR WATCH

Star Watch is a special evening program at Goddard Space Flight Center's 
Visitor Center.  Don't miss a chance to view the beauty of the night sky.  
Join us this month to view the planet Mars as it crosses into the constellation 
Cancer, catch the slender crescent of a very young Moon, and observe the 
longest constellation in the evening sky, Hydra, the Water Snake.  Join in 
the fun on Saturday, March 11, from 7 to 9 p.m. Bring your own telescope 
or use the Visitor Center's telescope.  The Star Watch is held weather 
permitting.

Sunday, March 26, 1 p.m.

DISCOVER GODDARD PRESENTATION:  "Measuring the Solar Breeze"

Energy streams out from the Sun towards the Earth in a solar wind of electrified 
particles.   The spacecraft that will help predict how the Earth's atmosphere will 
respond to changes in solar wind is called Wind.  Find out more about Wind, and 
the solar wind itself, at Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center on Sunday, 
March 26, at 1:00 p.m.  Dr. Tycho T. Von Rosenvinge, of Goddard's Nuclear 
Astrophysics Branch, will show how the existence of the solar wind was first 
confirmed in the early 1960s by NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft.

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