May 28th 2010 PDT
May 27, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-030 NASA AWARDS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SUPPORT CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the software engineering support contract at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. of Pasadena, Calif. The 8A set-aside cost-p ...Continue Reading
May 28th 2010 PDT
May 27, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-125 NASA JOINS WEB CONSORTIUM TO HELP IMPROVE UNIVERSAL ACCESS WASHINGTON -- NASA announced Thursday it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The consortium is an international organization that develops protocols, standards and guidelines to ensure universal Web access. "Standards will play a key role in making NASA's content more accessible on the Internet ...Continue Reading
May 28th 2010 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SMOKE OVER THE U.S. FROM SPRING BURNING Smoke from agricultural fires raised carbon monoxide concentrations slightly in parts of Mexico, the US Great Plains, New England, and southern Canada in mid-May 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44089&src=nha *** MOPITT(Terra) image from May 16, 201 ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
There are 2 messages totalling 76 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #25 2. VETERAN ASTRONAUTS GORIE AND OLIVAS LEAVE NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:10:01 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #25 STS-132 Report #25 9 a.m. CDT Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON -- Atlantis made its last planned landing Wednesday morning at Kennedy Space ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
May 26, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov D.C. Agle/Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011/354-0850 agle@jpl.nasa.gov/jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov Marc Airhart University of Texas, Austin 512-471-2241 mairhart@jsg.utexas.edu RELEASE: 10-122 NASA SPACECRAFT PENETRATES MYSTERIES OF MARTIAN ICE CAP PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have helped scientists solve a pair of mysteries datin ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
May 26, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-123 VETERAN ASTRONAUTS GORIE AND OLIVAS LEAVE NASA HOUSTON -- Veteran astronauts Dominic Gorie and John "Danny" Olivas are leaving NASA. Olivas' last day with the agency was Tuesday, May 25 and Gorie's is June 4. Gorie, a retired U.S. Navy captain, is a veteran of four space shu ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
Jonathan's Space Report No. 628 2010 May 26 Somerville, MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- On the station, Soyuz TMA-17 switched parking spots, and Atlantis made its final visit to add the Rassvet module and replace some batteries. Astronauts Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi flew Soyuz TMA-17 from Zarya to Zvezda on May 12. They undocked from the Zarya nadir port at 1326 UTC, retreated ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN POLAND Severe flooding raised Poland's rivers to their highest levels in over a century in May 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44082&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 23, 2010 (Posted on May 26, 2010 1:11 PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- OIL SLICK IN THE GULF ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
May 26, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-119 NASA'S SWIFT SURVEY FINDS 'SMOKING GUN' OF BLACK HOLE ACTIVATION WASHINGTON -- Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery about why a small percentage of black holes emit vast amounts of energy. Only about one percent of supermassive ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2010 PDT
In anticipation of the 35th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project this summer, we have significantly augmented our Web site devoted to this topic (_http://history.nasa.gov/astp/_). Special thanks to Liz Suckow and Colin Fries for assembling and posting online a number of new historical documents and videos for this site. Stephen Garber NASA History Division Mail Suite CO72, Room 5M27 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 202-358-0385 202-358-2866 fax _http://history.nasa.gov_ ...Continue Reading
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