July 8, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-161 NASA AND PARTNERS ASSIGN CREWS FOR UPCOMING SPACE STATION MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA and its international partners, the Russia Federal Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have assigned four new International Space Station crews. The crews i ...Continue Reading

July 08, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 steven.e.roy@nasa.gov Harry Wadsworth Lockheed Martin, New Orleans 504-257-0094 harry.wadsworth@maf.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-159 NASA CEREMONY HONORS SHUTTLE EXTERNAL TANK WORKFORCE WASHINGTON -- NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company paid tribute to the workforce who built the external tanks for the space shuttle fleet on Thursday at NASA's M ...Continue Reading

July 7, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Teresa Mannix Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Washington 202-687-4080 tmm53@georgetown.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-099 NASA, GEORGETOWN INVITE PUBLIC TO ASTRONAUTS' DISCUSSION OF RECENT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business invite the public to a discussion with the most recent space shuttle crew ...Continue Reading

July 07, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-039 NASA AWARDS CREW ROBOTICS AND VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CONTRACTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to three companies and one university for crew robotics and vehicle equipment work. The combined total value of the four contracts is not to exceed $70 million. The companies selected are ATK Space ...Continue Reading

July 07, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov 202-358-0918 Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov 301-286-4044 RELEASE: 10-160 NASA TO FLY INTO HURRICANE RESEARCH THIS SUMMER WASHINGTON -- Three NASA aircraft will begin flights to study tropical cyclones on Aug. 15 during the agency's first major U.S.-based hurricane field campaign since 2001. The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, will study the creation a ...Continue Reading

July 06, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Sasha Congiu Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-5506 / 757-817-8383 sasha.r.congiu@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-158 NASA ART AND DESIGN CONTESTANTS CREATE MULTI-MEDIA VISIONS OF LUNAR LIFE WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the winners in the 2010 Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest from more than 200 international student entries. Participants envisioned an imaginative lunar lifestyle through v ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 52 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF SPACE LIFE SCIENCES OPEN INNOVATION COMPETITION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:21:13 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF SPACE LIFE SCIENCES OPEN INNOVATION COMPETITION July 7, 2010 William P. Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J10-017 NASA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF SPACE LIFE SCIENCES OPEN INNOVA ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- FIRES IN EASTERN SIBERIA Fires burned across eastern Siberia north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in early July 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44560&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 07, 2010 (Posted on Jul 07, 2010 1:36 PM) FIRES IN WESTERN RUSSIA Fires burned along the Volga River, not far from Ni ...Continue Reading

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The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- GULF OIL SPILL (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- OIL SLICK IN THE GULF OF MEXICO On April 20, 2010, an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico left nearly a dozen workers missing and started a large fire. The damaged well was still leaking in early July. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44527&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 04, 2010 (Posted ...Continue Reading