Nov. 16, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-068 NASA AWARDS TEST OPERATIONS CONTRACT AT STENNIS SPACE CENTER WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the Test Operations Contract at Stennis Space Center, near Bay St. Louis, Miss., to Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. of Houston. The Test Operations Contract is a performance based, cost-plus-award-fee contract, valued ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2010 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-301 NASA FINANCIALS GET CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH WASHINGTON -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration received a much-improved financial statement audit opinion for the 2010 fiscal year. "I am pleased to receive this qualified audit opinion that reflects the fact NASA is fairly stating our financial position to our stakeholders," NASA Chief Financial Offic ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-162 NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH HOUSTON -- NASA managers will hold a news conference no earlier than 5 p.m. CST on Monday, Nov. 22, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the next space shuttle mission, STS-133, which was delayed on Nov. 5. NASA officials will ...Continue Reading

The Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) blended sea surface temperature (SST) product has been updated to version 1. This product is a daily 1 km resolution product funded by the NASA MEaSUREs program to meet the goals of an accurate and consistent retrospective Level 4 SST record initially for US coastal regions. The output datasets are made to Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) Level 4 netCDF specifications. The data from 2008-2010 can be found here: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/GHRSST2/data/L4/NCAMERICA/JPL/M ...Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce the availability of /A Tunnel Through Time:/  /The History of NASA’s Altitude Wind Tunnel /by Robert S. Arrighi (NASA SP-2010-4609).  This video documentary complements Arrighi’s book-length /Revolutionary Atmosphere: The Story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and Space Power Chambers /(NASA SP-2010-4319) and his award-winning interactive CD-ROM history of the Altitude Wind Tunnel (NASA SP-2008-4608).    /A Tunnel Through Time/ tells the story of an important, but little-know ...Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce the availability of /A Tunnel Through Time:/  /The History of NASA’s Altitude Wind Tunnel /by Robert S. Arrighi (NASA SP-2010-4609).  This video documentary complements Arrighi’s book-length /Revolutionary Atmosphere: The Story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and Space Power Chambers /(NASA SP-2010-4319) and his award-winning interactive CD-ROM history of the Altitude Wind Tunnel (NASA SP-2008-4608).    /A Tunnel Through Time/ tells the story of an important, but little-know ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Amiko Kauderer Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 amiko.kauderer-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-300 NASA ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY KICKS OFF GEOGRAPHY TRIVIA FROM SPACE HOUSTON -- Where over the world is NASA astronaut Scott Kelly? Kelly, who will be living aboard the International Space Station for nearly six months, wants to test your knowledge of the world through a geography trivia game on Twitte ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov Lee Tune University of Maryland, College Park 301-405-4679 ltune@umd.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-161 NASA ANNOUNCES COMET ENCOUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 18, to discuss new scientific findings from the recent EPOXI mission spacecraft encounter with comet Hartley 2. ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2010 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6162 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 10-299 NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS YOUNGEST NEARBY BLACK HOLE WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. T ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 90 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SPACEWALK LIVE ON NASA TV MONDAY 2. NASA AWARDS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:59:20 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SPACEWALK LIVE ON NASA TV MONDAY Nov. 10, 2010 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, W ...Continue Reading