Feb. 03, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-032 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS DISCUSS SPACE STATION OPERATIONS WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want to continue using the station as a test-bed for exploration and find innovative ways to reduce costs while increasing use. The Multilateral C ...Continue Reading

Feb. 03, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 rachel.kraft@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-031 NASA NAMES WINNING EXPERIMENTS IN KIDS MICRO-G CHALLENGE HOUSTON -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station this spring will conduct six experiments designed by middle school students from across the country. The winning proposals of the "Kids in Micro-g" Challenge are from California, Idaho, Mont ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 39 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA HOSTS SPECIAL EVENT WITH EXPEDITION 23, 24 AND 25 CREW MEMBERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:57:20 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA HOSTS SPECIAL EVENT WITH EXPEDITION 23, 24 AND 25 CREW MEMBERS February 2, 2011 Brenda Cabaniss Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-8860 Report #J11-001 NASA HOSTS SPECIAL EVENT WITH EXPEDITION 23, 24 AND 25 CREW MEMBERS ...Continue Reading

Feb. 2, 2011 Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-215-9680 sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-021 NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR MEETS WITH COMMERCIAL SPACE INNOVATORS WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will travel to Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo., this week to meet with leaders of two commercial space companies, Bigelow Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp., and tour their facilities. NASA is partnering with the commercial sector to develop innovative technologies to ensure that th ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE YASI Tropical Cyclone Yasi headed for Australia in late January 2011. The storm was forecast to make landfall with winds over 100 knots (185 kilometers per hour). * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49074&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 02, 2011 (Posted on Feb 02, 2011 11:17 AM) - ...Continue Reading

Feb. 02, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney/Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937/650-604-0643 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov, rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-030 NASA FINDS EARTH-SIZE PLANET CANDIDATES IN HABITABLE ZONE, SIX PLANET SYSTEM WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water c ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES Dozens of fires burned throughout the Southeastern United States on January 29, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49056&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 29, 2011 (Posted on Jan 31, 2011 4:17 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- TROPICAL C ...Continue Reading

Feb. 2, 2011 Trent Perrotto/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1726 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-029 NASA'S NEOWISE COMPLETES SCAN FOR ASTEROIDS AND COMETS WASHINGTON -- NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown ob ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA EXTENDS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:32:29 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE CONTRACT Jan. 31, 2011 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #C11-004 NASA EXTENDS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA will exerci ...Continue Reading

Jan. 31, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-003 NASA ANNOUNCES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONTRACT EXTENSION HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego. The sole source contract extension provides agency-wide i ...Continue Reading