May 26, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-124 SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS RETURNS HOME AFTER ITS FINAL PLANNED MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts ended a 12-day journey of more than 4.8 million miles with an 8:48 a.m. EDT landing Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The third of five shuttle missions planned f ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 62 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #23 2. STS-132 MCC Status Report #24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:34:39 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #23 STS-132 Report #23 Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 1:30 p.m. CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � Atlantis astronauts spent Tuesday getting read ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ERUPTION OF EYJAFJALLAJOKULL VOLCANO, ICELAND Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano burst into life on March 20, 2010. By the last week of May, it appeared to have quieted down. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44068&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from May 18, 2010 (Posted on May 24, 2010 2:17 PM ...Continue Reading

May 25, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Florida 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-082 SPACE SHUTTLE CREW SET TO RETURN TO EARTH WEDNESDAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Wednesday, May 26, after a 12-day mission. NASA managers will evaluate weather conditions at the agency's Kennedy Spa ...Continue Reading

May 25, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745 susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 10-121 SPACECRAFT REVEALS SMALL SOLAR EVENTS HAVE LARGE SCALE EFFECTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists for the first time to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of storms on the sun. Solar storms have been recognized as a c ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 146 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-132 MCC Status Report #21 2. NASA TV CARRYING SPACE STATION CREW LANDING AND NEXT CREW'S LAUNCH 3. STS-132 MCC Status Report #22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:23:47 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-132 MCC Status Report #21 STS-132 Report #21 1:30 p.m. CDT Monday, May 24, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON ï ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@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 RELEASE: 10-120 PHOENIX MARS LANDER DOES NOT PHONE HOME, NEW IMAGE SHOWS DAMAGE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA's Mars R ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- EXPLOSION, LEAK AT GULF OF MEXICO OIL WELL 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 continued to leak in mid-May. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44064&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 23, 2010 ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-073 NASA TV CARRYING SPACE STATION CREW LANDING AND NEXT CREW'S LAUNCH HOUSTON -- NASA Television will cover the June 1 return to Earth of three International Space Station crew members and the June 15 launch of the newest trio of station residents. The new crew will be the ...Continue Reading

May 24, 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-077 NASA HOLDS MEDIA BRIEFING ON RESULTS OF BLACK HOLE SURVEY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference Wednesday, May 26, at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss new results from the Swift satellite's survey of active black holes. Swift's hard X-ray survey detects supermassive black holes in the hear ...Continue Reading