Dec. 17, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-341 NASA MOVES FORWARD IN COMMERCIAL ROCKET ENGINE TESTING BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- NASA conducted a test fire Friday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Taurus II space launch vehicle. The test at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi suppor ...Continue Reading

Dec. 17, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-1357 priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-174 NASA ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON WASHINGTON -- NASA has planned various ways to help the public enjoy the total lunar eclipse on the night of Dec. 20 to 21. Astron ...Continue Reading

Dec. 16, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-342 NASA SPACECRAFT PROVIDES TRAVEL TIPS FOR MARS ROVER SAN FRANCISCO -- NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about pas ...Continue Reading

Dec. 16, 2010 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-283 KEEGAN NAMED NASA'S ASSOCIATE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR WASHINGTON -- NASA named Richard Keegan as the agency's associate deputy administrator on Thursday. He replaces Charles Scales, who has held the position since April 2007. Scales is retiring. The associate deputy administrator assists and supports NASA's administrator and deputy administrator during day-to-day agency operations, across the broad s ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 127 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN 2. NASA TELEVISION WILL AIR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TANKING TEST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:06:32 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN December 15, 2010 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Wash ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-340 NASA DISCOVERS ASTEROID DELIVERED ASSORTMENT OF METEORITES WASHINGTON -- An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert in October 2008 discovered ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-337 NASA SCIENTIFIC BALLOONS TO RETURN TO FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA's scientific balloon program is resuming flights this month after an extensive evaluation of its safety processes following a mishap during an April launch attempt from Australia. NASA's high-altitude balloons fly instrum ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-339 NASA'S ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT SETS EXPLORATION RECORD ON MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet. The probe begins its 3,340th day in Martian orbit at 8:55 p.m. EST on Wedn ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-173 NASA TELEVISION WILL AIR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TANKING TEST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will conduct a tanking test at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Dec. 17, to evaluate repairs made to space shuttle Discovery' ...Continue Reading

Dec. 14, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-330 NEWEST SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:09 p.m. ES ...Continue Reading