June 16, 2010 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-092 PLANNED MAINTENANCE TO AFFECT NASA TV SATELLITE DISTRIBUTION WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will perform maintenance that will affect satellite distribution on Thursday, June 17 from 6 to 8 a.m. EDT. During this planned outage, only the NASA TV Public Channel (Program 101) will be available. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit: htt ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 57 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. HOUSTON WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN ASTRONAUT SHANNON WALKERS VIDEO CONTEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:52:18 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: HOUSTON WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN ASTRONAUT SHANNON WALKERS VIDEO CONTEST June 15, 2010 Jenna Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J10-015 HOUSTON WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN ASTRONAUT SHANNON WALKERÃÂ&m ...Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-143 NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN HOUSTON -- NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft at 4:35 p.m. CDT Tuesday (3:35 a.m. Wednesday local ...Continue Reading

June 15, 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 RELEASE: 10-146 NASA RELEASES KEPLER DATA ON POTENTIAL EXTRASOLAR PLANETS MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes as part of an ongoing search for Ea ...Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-034 NASA AWARDS SPACE NETWORK GROUND SEGMENT SUSTAINMENT CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project contract to General Dynamics C4 Systems of Scottsdale, Ariz. The cost-plus-award fee, indefinite delivery/ ...Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-142 NASA ANNOUNCES EDUCATION RESEARCH PROGRAM AWARD RECIPIENTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $16.8 million to colleges and universities nationwide to conduct research and technology development in areas of importance to the agency's mission. In addition to the research and technology development, the awards enable faculty ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- LAVA AND SNOW ON KLYUCHEVSKAYA VOLCANO Klyuchevskaya Volcano continued emit steam, ash, and lava in 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44301&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Jun 12, 2010 (Posted on Jun 15, 2010 12:48 PM) -------------------------------------------------------------- ...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!* [*]Space: Yours to Discover There's a misconception that in order to do real science and make astronomical discoveries, you have to be a professional astronomer.     [*]Dwa ...Continue Reading

June 14, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-145 NASA APPOINTS CONSTELLATION PROGRAM MANAGERS WASHINGTON -- Lawrence D. Thomas has been appointed manager of NASA's Constellation Program, which manages the effort to take humans beyond low-Earth orbit and develop the next generation launch vehicle and spacecraft. Charles ...Continue Reading

June 14, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Tina McDowell Carnegie Institution of Washington 202-939-1120 tmcdowell@ciw.edu RELEASE: 10-144 RESEARCH SUGGESTS WATER CONTENT OF MOON INTERIOR UNDERESTIMATED WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded scientists estimate from recent research that the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the moon's interior could exceed the amount of water in the Great Lakes here on Earth. Scienti ...Continue Reading