April 2, 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: 10-073 CREW LIFTS OFF FROM KAZAKHSTAN TO JOIN CREWMATES ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko safely launched to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Friday. Liftoff occurred at 12:04 a ...Continue Reading

April 1, 2010 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281- 483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-021 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO ENTERPRISE ADVISORY SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a three-year, $182.6 million contract to Enterprise Advisory Services Inc., of Houston for facility operations and support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. NA ...Continue Reading

April 1, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-022 NASA SELECTS EARTH SCIENCE DATA AND INFORMATION CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Md., for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract. The total value of the five-year, cost-plus-award-fee, indef ...Continue Reading

April 1, 2010 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281- 483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-020 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC. WASHINGTON -- NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a five-year contract to Jacobs Technology Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., for test and evaluation support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. NASA's Johnson Space Center in ...Continue Reading

April 1, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-070 NASA RELEASES STUNNING HUBBLE TELESCOPE 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK WASHINGTON -- NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this scientific icon, NASA has collaborated with leading illustrated book publisher Abrams to release a dy ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE PAUL Tropical Cyclone Paul traveled over the northern coast of Australia in late March 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43385&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 01, 2010 (Posted on Apr 01, 2010 1:09 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- N ...Continue Reading

April 01, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov John Leslie NOAA's Satellite and Information Service, Silver Spring, Md. 301-713-2087 john.leslie@noaa.gov RELEASE: 10-072 NASA AND NOAA MARK 50 YEARS OF WEATHER WATCHING FROM SPACE WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, the world's first weather satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., opening a new and exciting dimension in weather forecasting. Leaders from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE PAUL Tropical Cyclone Paul traveled over the northern coast of Australia in late March 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43297&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Mar 30, 2010 (Posted on Mar 30, 2010 3:11 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- LATE MARCH ...Continue Reading

March 31, 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 Daniel Stolte University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-4402 stolte@email.arizona.edu RELEASE: 10-071 NASA MARS SPACECRAFT SNAPS PHOTOS CHOSEN BY PUBLIC WASHINGTON -- The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public. The ...Continue Reading

March 30, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-018 NASA SELECTS RAPID III CONTRACTORS FOR SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services. Each contractor has one or more core spacecraft offerings available under it ...Continue Reading