Sep. 20, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-054 NASA AWARDS INFRARED SOUNDER CONTRACT FOR FIRST JPSS SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a sole source contract to ITT Corporation of Ft. Wayne, Ind. The award is for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument planned for flight on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) in 2014. JPSS is the rest ...Continue Reading

Sep. 20, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-229 NASA FUNDED STUDY SHOWS DESERT DUST CUTS COLORADO RIVER FLOW WASHINGTON -- Snow melt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. A new study shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities i ...Continue Reading

Sep. 20, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 steven.e.roy@nasa.gov Harry Wadsworth Lockheed Martin, New Orleans 504-257-0094 harry.wadsworth@lmco.com RELEASE: 10-227 NASA TO SHIP FUEL TANK FOR THE LAST PLANNED SHUTTLE FLIGHT NEW ORLEANS -- The external fuel tank that will power the last planned space shuttle into orbit will be shipped Tuesday to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tank ha ...Continue Reading

If you have trouble viewing this newsletter, click here. For education orders please call 1-877-290-8256. *Welcome again to our monthly newsletter with features on exciting celestial events, product reviews, tips & tricks, and a monthly sky calendar. We hope you enjoy it!* [*]Fun with Analemmas Tracing shapes in the sky with Brenda M. Shaw.     [*]Educator's Corner: Precession Combine the Earth’s axial tilt with gravitational forces ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN YUKON FLATS, ALASKA Late-season fires filled the air with smoke over the Yukon Flats in interior Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45832&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 15, 2010 (Posted on Sep 16, 2010 4:12 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- HURRICANE KARL Hurrica ...Continue Reading

Sep. 16, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: 10-224 NASA HOSTS SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LATIN AMERICAN SPACE PARTNERSHIPS WASHINGTON -- NASA hosted government representatives from several Latin American countries in Washington on Thursday to share information about the agency's work in that region and discuss potential future partnerships. The event highlighted potential opportunities for cooperation with NASA in Earth science, space and Internat ...Continue Reading

Sep. 16, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-053 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES CONTRACTS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has announced the awards for the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II Contract. The award will provide a broad range of launch services for NASA's planetary, Earth-observing, exploration and scientific satellites. NASA has the ability to order a ma ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- SEASONAL FIRES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Hundreds of land-management fires burned throughout southern Africa at the end of the dry season in September 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45813&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 15, 2010 (Posted on Sep 15, 2010 5:32 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natu ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 99 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR FINAL LAUNCH ON NEED SHUTTLE MISSION 2. NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:43:10 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR FINAL LAUNCH ON NEED SHUTTLE MISSION September 15, 2010 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washi ...Continue Reading

Sep. 15, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-223 NASA'S LUNAR SPACECRAFT COMPLETES EXPLORATION MISSION PHASE WASHINGTON -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that transformed our understanding of Earth's nearest neighbor. LRO completed a one-ye ...Continue Reading