Four Decades Of Historic NASA Images Appear In 2000 Space Calendar; NASA Workers Receive Discount Through End Of Year.

ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1999--

Gus Grissom and John Young are strapped into their seats for the first Gemini spaceflight in 1965. The Apollo 18 spacecraft is photographed against the blackness of space by Soviet cosmonauts just prior to their famous docking in 1975. Voyager 1 gets up-close and personal with Saturn during a daring flyby in 1980. Astronauts complete a day-long spacewalk to finish the first assembly work of the International Space Station in 1998. These are just some of the historic NASA images from the past four decades that appear in "The Year In Space" 2000 Desk Calendar. <http://www.YearInSpace.com>

Sponsored by seventeen of the world's leading space organizations, including Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Boeing (NYSE:BA), Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and Ball Aerospace (NYSE:BLL), this 164-page weekly desk calendar features color photographs from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery.

"The Year In Space" boasts 54 weekly color space images carefully culled from the NASA archives, interplanetary spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and world-famous observatories. Historic images from the Gemini and Apollo programs appear along with recent images of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. An informative essay accompanies every image, and each weekly calendar page is filled with facts and anniversaries relating to the history of space exploration and astronomy.

As a desk calendar for 2000, "The Year In Space" is extraordinarily complete, with weekly, monthly, yearly and multi-year calendars, a daily moon phase calendar, an address section, blank pages for notes, as well as articles about the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA launch schedule for 2000, a preview of planetary exploration in 2000, and more.

"The Year In Space" is now available on the web <http://www.YearInSpace.com> or by calling 800/736-6836.

Discounts up to 47% are available for all NASA employees nationwide, as well as for employees of organizations that sponsor the calendar, including Boeing (NYSE:BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Motorola (NYSE:MOT), Ball Aerospace & Technologies (NYSE:BLL), Rotary Rocket Company, National Space Society, Eagle Picher Technologies, MacDonald Dettwiler, ASE Space Solar Cells, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Magazine, SpaceDaily.com, Space Camp, Sienna Software, The Planetary Society, U.S. Space Foundation, and the Space Awareness Alliance.