Sep. 30, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-239 NASA SOLAR SYSTEM EXHIBITION ARRIVES AT DULLES AIRPORT WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority unveiled a photography exhibition at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., where ticketed airline travelers can view space science discoveries and relish the beauty and majesty of our solar system. "NASA presents BEYOND: Visions of Our Solar System," will ...Continue Reading

Sep. 30, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-233 NASA MISSION SHOWS EVOLUTION OF CONDITIONS AT EDGE OF SOLAR SYSTEM WASHINGTON -- New data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge of our solar system may be much more dynamic than previously thought. Future exploration missions will benefit in design and mission objectives from a better understanding of the changing conditions in this out ...Continue Reading

Sep. 30, 2010 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-139 NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE WILL DISCUSS CRITICAL VOTE IN CONGRESS FOR FUTURE OF HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will be available to answer media questions during a teleconference Thursday, Sept. 30, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Garver will discuss the strong, bipartisan support Congress has given the agency and President Obama's ambitious p ...Continue Reading

Sep. 30, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov Jeffrey G. Olson National Park Service, Washington 202-208-6843 jeffrey_olson@nps.gov RELEASE: 10-236 NASA GIVES DETAILS ON SPOTTING THE SPACE STATION AT NATIONAL PARKS WASHINGTON -- Plan your next camp out for a national park, and you might spot one of the gems of the night sky -- ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-238 NASA ADMINISTRATOR THANKS CONGRESS FOR 2010 AUTHORIZATION ACT SUPPORT WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden regarding Wednesday's action by the House of Representatives on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010. "We thank the Congress for their thoughtful deliberations about NASA' ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lisa-Joy Zgorski National Science Foundation, Washington 703-292-8311 lzgorski@nsf.gov RELEASE: 10-237 NASA AND NSF-FUNDED RESEARCH FINDS FIRST POTENTIALLY HABITABLE EXOPLANET WASHINGTON -- A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a dista ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 steven.e.roy@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-062 NASA AWARDS SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINE CONTRACT MODIFICATION WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $60.3 million contract modification to space shuttle main engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. of Canoga Park, Calif., to provide continued space shuttle main engine prelaunch, launch and ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rani Gran/Darryl Mitchell Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2483/5169 rani.c.gran@nasa.gov darryl.r.mitchell@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-230 NASA AND OPTIMUS PRIME COLLABORATE TO EDUCATE YOUTH WASHINGTON -- NASA has developed a contest to raise students' awareness of technology transfer efforts and how NASA technologies contribute to our everyday lives. NASA is collaborating with Hasbro using ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-138 NASA RESCHEDULES TELECONFERENCE ON IBEX SPACECRAFT FINDINGS WASHINGTON -- NASA has rescheduled the media teleconference to discuss new information about the boundary of our solar system obtained from the agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. The telecon now is set for noon EDT, on Thursday, Sept. 30. The briefing participants are: - Arik Posner, IBEX program scientist, Heli ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center 757-864-9886 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov Harla Sherwood National Institute of Aerospace 757-636-6300 sherwood@nianet.org RELEASE: 10-232 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO DISCUSS "WHAT MATTERS NEXT" AT TEDXNASA HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA is inviting the public to join agency leaders and innovators from a variety of fields on Nov. 4 t ...Continue Reading