Oct. 25, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov Lee Tune University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 301-405-4679 ltune@umd.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-152 NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE TO PREVIEW COMET ENCOUNTER PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview the EPOXI mission's upcoming flyby and study of the comet Hart ...Continue Reading

Oct. 22, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov Anders Correll Aarhus University Press Office, Denmark +45 2899 2235 ac@adm.au.dk MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-150 INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF ASTRONOMERS TO DISCUSS KEPLER FINDINGS WASHINGTON -- The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC) at Aarhus University in Denmark will hold a media teleconference o ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON MEGI After forming quickly on October 13, 2010, Typhoon Megi grew to “super” typhoon status by October 16. After striking the Philippines on October 18, the storm moved over the South China Sea toward China. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natur ...Continue Reading

Oct. 22, 2010 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-269 NASA RELEASES REPORT ABOUT AUSTRALIA BALLOON MISHAP WASHINGTON -- A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful April 28 launch of a scientific balloon from Alice Springs, Australia, has released its report. NASA was attempting to launch the balloon carrying a gamma-ray telescope belonging to the University of California at Berkeley. The Nuclear Compton Telescope, which was partially destroyed in the ...Continue Reading

Oct. 22, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Erin Gleason Foursquare, New York 917-859-0501 press@foursquare.com RELEASE: 10-273 NASA ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH FOURSQUARE ASTRONAUT DOUG WHEELOCK "CHECKS IN" FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander Doug Wheelock became the first person to "check in" from space Friday using the mobile social networking appli ...Continue Reading

Oct. 22, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Sarah DeWitt/Kathryn Hansen Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0535/301-614-5883 sarah.l.dewitt@nasa.gov/kathryn.h.hansen@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-272 NASA AIRBORNE SCIENCE CAMPAIGN BEGINS ANTARCTIC SEQUEL WASHINGTON -- Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica. The mission monit ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 70 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S FLIGHT DIRECTORS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:21:48 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S FLIGHT DIRECTORS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS Oct. 21, 2010 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M10-1 ...Continue Reading

Oct. 21, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-149 NASA TO MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIFE ON SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate the 10th anniversary of human life, work and research on the International Space Station (ISS) with an Oct. 27 series of roundtable discussions. The events at three NASA centers and headquarters in Washington will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website www.nasa.gov/ntv. News media are ...Continue Reading

Oct. 21, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-065 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES CONTRACT FOR MAVEN MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Littleton, Colo., to launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft known as MAVEN. MAVEN will launch in November 2013 ab ...Continue Reading

Oct. 21, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-271 NASA MISSIONS UNCOVER THE MOON'S BURIED TREASURES WASHINGTON -- Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists Thursday revealed new data uncovered by NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The missions found evidence that the lunar soil within shadowy craters is rich in useful materials ...Continue Reading