March 26, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-069 NASA SETS SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCH DATE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 6:21 a.m. EDT on April 5 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discovery's launch date for the STS-131 mission was announce ...Continue Reading

March 26, 2010 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Katherine K. Martin Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2406 katherine.k.martin@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-017 NASA AWARDS SPACE PROPULSION RESEARCH CONTRACTS TO FIVE FIRMS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide space propulsion systems technologies in support of research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Each of the fiv ...Continue Reading

March 26, 2010 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Katherine K. Martin Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2406 katherine.k.martin@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-016 NASA AWARDS PROPULSION RESEARCH CONTRACTS TO FIVE FIRMS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide air-breathing engine technologies in support of aerospace propulsion research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Each ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SPRING SANDSTORM SCOURS CHINA A huge sandstorm arrived in China on the first day of spring in 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43250&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 21, 2010 (Posted on Mar 25, 2010 5:48 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ERUPTI ...Continue Reading

March 25, 2010 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-1880 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-016 NASA AWARDS LABORATORY SERVICE CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has awarded a contract to A2 Research, JV, of Huntsville, Ala., to provide technical laboratory services at the center. The firm, fixed-priced contract is valued at $26 million. It in ...Continue Reading

March 25, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Sally Harrington Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2037 sally.v.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-068 NASA CHOOSES STUDENT TEAMS TO TEST EXPERIMENTS ON BALLOONSAT CLEVELAND -- NASA selected four high school teams as finalists in the Balloonsat High Altitude Flight competition. Their experiments will be the payload aboard a NASA weather balloon that will launch May 25-27. The balloon will be sent t ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODING NEAR THE BETSIBOKA RIVER, MADAGASCAR Croplands along the Betsiboka River in Madagascar flooded in March 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43240&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Mar 23, 2010 (Posted on Mar 24, 2010 3:22 PM) FLOODING IN UPPER MIDWEST Rain, snowmelt, and ice jams backed up rivers ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 55 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SCHEDULES INTERVIEWS FOR APRIL SHUTTLE MISSION FLIGHT DIRECTORS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:39:48 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SCHEDULES INTERVIEWS FOR APRIL SHUTTLE MISSION FLIGHT DIRECTORS March 24, 2010 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M10-045 NASA SCHEDULES INTE ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2010 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-014 NASA AWARDS SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has contracted with ERC Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for space technology research and development activities at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett F ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE IMANI Tropical Cyclone Imani swirled over the Southern Indian Ocean in late March 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43225&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 24, 2010 (Posted on Mar 24, 2010 12:29 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- VOLCANIC A ...Continue Reading