There are 2 messages totalling 127 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN 2. NASA TELEVISION WILL AIR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TANKING TEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:06:32 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN December 15, 2010 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Wash ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-340 NASA DISCOVERS ASTEROID DELIVERED ASSORTMENT OF METEORITES WASHINGTON -- An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert in October 2008 discovered ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-337 NASA SCIENTIFIC BALLOONS TO RETURN TO FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA's scientific balloon program is resuming flights this month after an extensive evaluation of its safety processes following a mishap during an April launch attempt from Australia. NASA's high-altitude balloons fly instrum ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-339 NASA'S ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT SETS EXPLORATION RECORD ON MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet. The probe begins its 3,340th day in Martian orbit at 8:55 p.m. EST on Wedn ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-173 NASA TELEVISION WILL AIR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TANKING TEST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will conduct a tanking test at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Dec. 17, to evaluate repairs made to space shuttle Discovery' ...Continue Reading

Dec. 14, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-330 NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:09 p.m. ES ...Continue Reading

Dec. 14, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov Paul Laustsen U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 650-329-4046 plaustsen@usgs.gov RELEASE: 10-335 CASSINI SPOTS POTENTIAL ICE VOLCANO ON SATURN MOON WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten ...Continue Reading

Dec. 13, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Marny Skora Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6121/344-6111 marny.skora@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-077 NASA SELECTS UNISYS FOR SIMULATION, AIRCRAFT TECHNICAL SERVICES HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA has selected the Unisys Corp. in Reston, Va., to provide simulation and aircraft technical services for ...Continue Reading

Dec. 13, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook 818-359-3241 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-334 NASA PROBE SEES SOLAR WIND DECLINE EN ROUTE TO INTERSTELLAR SPACE PASADENA, Calif. -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 10.8 billion mile ...Continue Reading

Dec. 13, 2010 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-332 NASA NAMES WALEED ABDALATI AS AGENCY'S NEW CHIEF SCIENTIST WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Waleed Abdalati the agency's chief scientist, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science programs, strategic planning and the evaluation of related investments. Abdalati is currently the director of the Earth Science a ...Continue Reading