Sept. 11, 2009 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Franco Bonacina European Space Agency, Headquarters, Paris 33-1-5369-7713 Franco.Bonacina@esa.int RELEASE: 09-208 U.S. AND EUROPE AGREE ON CIVIL SPACE TRANSPORTATION COOPERATION WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed a memorandum of understanding Friday for cooperation in the field of space transportation. The agreement was ...Continue Reading

Sept. 11, 2009 Ashley Edwards/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/4997 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-209 STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN NASA'S LUNAR FIELD TEST ACTIVITIES WASHINGTON -- To prepare for human exploration of the moon and other destinations in our solar system, NASA is conducting a field test of rovers and equipment at an Earthly site in the Arizona desert. Hundreds of students are invited to experience it. NAS ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 64 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-128 MCC Status Report #26 2. STS-128 MCC Status Report #27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:08 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-128 MCC Status Report #26 STS-128 Report #26 10:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON – The astronauts on space shuttle Discovery are ready to wrap up a nearly ...Continue Reading

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Jonathan's Space Report No. 615 2009 Sep 10 Somerville, MA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- On Aug 7 the Station SSRMS arm grappled the PMA3 docking port and removed it from the Unity module's nadir berth at around 1000 UTC. At around 1200 UTC the PMA3 was attached to Unity's port berth, leaving the nadir berth free for a new module. OV-103 Discovery was launched on Aug 29 on mission ST ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2009 Dolores Beasley Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0131 dbeasley@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-173 NASA AMES TO HOST ADMINISTRATION'S CLOUD COMPUTING ANNOUNCEMENT MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Reporters are invited to participate in a news conference at NASA's Ames Research Center at 10 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, Sept. 15, featuring Vivek Kundra, White House federal chief information officer. He will outline his vision for a new federal government cloud computing initiative. NASA Deputy ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2009 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-198 NASA AND ATK SUCCESSFULLY TEST ARES FIRST STAGE MOTOR PROMONTORY, Utah -- NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE FRED Hurricane Fred traveled northwestward across the Atlantic Ocean in early September 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40143&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 09, 2009 (Posted on Sep 09, 2009 3:24 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-203 NASA PUBLISHES REPORT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCIENCE HOUSTON -- Advances in the fight against food poisoning, new methods for delivering medicine to cancer cells, and better materials for future spacecraft are among the results published in a NASA report detailing scientific research accomplishments made ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 62 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-128 MCC Status Report #24 2. STS-128 MCC Status Report #25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:35:45 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-128 MCC Status Report #24 STS-128 Report #24 10:30 a.m. CDT Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON – As they wind down their mission, space shuttle Discovery ...Continue Reading