Feb. 25, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 steven.e.roy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-057 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTS FINAL MOTOR TEST IN UTAH HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for approximately 123 seconds -- th ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SNOW BLANKETS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Winter snowstorms blanketed the Rocky Mountains in late February 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42797&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Feb 23, 2010 (Posted on Feb 24, 2010 2:38 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natura ...Continue Reading

Feb. 25, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Susan Arensman Wichita Public Schools, Wichita, Kansas 316-973-4582 SArensman@usd259.net MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-038 KANSAS STUDENTS CONNECT WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW FOR OUT OF THIS WORLD CONVERSATION WASHINGTON -- Astronauts orbiting 220 miles above Earth will discuss science and living in space with students from Mueller Aerospace and Engineering Discovery Magnet School in Wichita, Kan., on Tue ...Continue Reading

Feb. 25, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-049 SCIENCE TEAM FROM AMES RESEARCH CENTER WINS 2009 NASA SOFTWARE OF YEAR AWARD MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- The NASA World Wind Java computer program developed at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., is the winner of NASA's 2009 Software of the Year Award. Software engineers at Ames ...Continue Reading

Feb. 25, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-050 NASA GROUND-BREAKING UNEARTHS NEW GENERATION OF DEEP SPACE NETWORK ANTENNAS WASHINGTON -- NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. Following the recommendations of an inde ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 48 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA PRESENTS SAFETY AWARD TO JOHN MICHAEL ROLLINS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:48:53 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA PRESENTS SAFETY AWARD TO JOHN MICHAEL ROLLINS February 23, 2010 Lynette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 Report #J10-005 NASA PRESENTS SAFETY AWARD TO JOHN MICHAEL ROLLIN ...Continue Reading

Feb. 24, 2010 Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-1880 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-051 NASA HOSTS ROCKON! 2010 UNIVERSITY ROCKET SCIENCE WORKSHOP IN JUNE BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- NASA's Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Miss., unveiled an initiative today to chart the future of the nation's premier rocket engine testing facility. Stennis Director Gene Goldman announced plans for the center to test Aerojet AJ26 rocket engines for Orbital Sciences Corp. as part of a NASA partnership with ...Continue Reading

Feb. 24, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov Chris Koehler Colorado Space Grant Consortium, Boulder 303-492-3141 Koehler@colorado.edu RELEASE: 10-047 NASA HOSTS ROCKON! 2010 UNIVERSITY ROCKET SCIENCE WORKSHOP IN JUNE WASHINGTON -- U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- SOUTHERN MADEIRA On February 20, 2010, torrential rain inundated the Portuguese island of Madeira. Water, rocks, and mud gushed down the slopes of the steep-sided island and though the streets of Funchal and other cities on the island’s populated southern coast. * http://earthobservato ...Continue Reading

Feb. 24, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-034 MEDIA DAY PLANNED FOR FIRST NASA GLOBAL HAWK SCIENCE CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON -- Reporters are invited to a media day in April to observe the first environmental science mission of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Global Hawk Pacific 2010 mission, or GloPac, will involve a series of long-duration flights by the auton ...Continue Reading