Feb. 3, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-030 NASA EXTENDS CASSINI'S TOUR OF SATURN, CONTINUING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR WORLD CLASS SCIENCE WASHINGTON -- NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017. The agency's fiscal year 2011 budget provides a $60 million per year extension for cont ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Morrie Goodman Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 morrie.goodman@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-032 NASA ADMINISTRATOR NAMES WOODROW WHITLOW ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR MISSION SUPPORT WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named Dr. Woodrow Whitlow, Jr., the associate administrator for Mission Support at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Whitlow will continue to serve as the director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland until a successor is named. In this new posi ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE FAMI Tropical Cyclone Fami hovered over Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel in early February 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42523&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 02, 2010 (Posted on Feb 02, 2010 5:18 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Morrie Goodman Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 morrie.goodman@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-031 NASA ADMINISTRATOR NAMES BRAUN NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden named Robert D. Braun the agency's Chief Technologist, effective Wednesday, Feb. 3. Braun serves as the principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs. The appointment comes as NASA launches a bold new initiative that targets technologies that c ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING NEAR MACHU PICCHU, PERU Heavy rain in the Andes Mountains in early February 2010 damaged roads, trails, train tracks, and bridges around the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42501&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Feb 01, 2010 (Posted on Feb 01, 2010 5:56 PM) -- VOLCAN ...Continue Reading

Feb. 02, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 10-029 SUSPECTED ASTEROID COLLISION LEAVES TRAILING DEBRIS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down throu ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 65 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SELECTS COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT USING RECOVERY ACT FUNDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:46:29 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SELECTS COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT ...Continue Reading

Feb. 1, 2010 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-004 NASA SELECTS COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT USING RECOVERY ACT FUNDS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's cap ...Continue Reading

Feb. 1, 2010 Michael Cabbage/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-020 NASA ANNOUNCES TUESDAY NEWS TELECONFERENCES WITH DIRECTORATE LEADERS WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the administration's fiscal year 2011 budget request Monday by calling for change and a new era of innovation in America's approach to science and space exploration. On Tuesday, Feb. 2, the associate administrators of the mi ...Continue Reading

Feb. 01, 2010 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-019 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS TELECON TO DISCUSS HUBBLE IMAGES OF PLUTO WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. These detailed images will help astronomers better interpret more than three decades of Pluto observations from other telescopes. The panelists are: - Marc Buie, sc ...Continue Reading