Aug. 30, 2010 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-203 NASA SELECTS TWO FIRMS FOR EXPERIMENTAL SPACE VEHICLE TEST FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR) has awarded a total of approximately $475,000 to Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas and Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif. The awards will allow the two companies to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles ne ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM EARL Tropical Storm Earl developed over the Atlantic Ocean in late August 2010 and headed westward. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45529&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 27, 2010 (Posted on Aug 27, 2010 5:18 PM) HURRICANE DANIELLE Danielle formed as a tropical depression over th ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jon Hornstein Internet Archive, San Francisco 415-561-6767 hornstein@archive.org Jason Khoury Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif. 408-368-3753 jkhoury@yahoo-inc.com RELEASE: 10-186 NASA, INTERNET ARCHIVE AND FLICKR LAUNCH HISTORIC IMAGE COLLECTION WASHINGTON -- Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2010 Mike Curie/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-122 NASA TV AIRS INTERVIEW EXCERPTS ABOUT ASSISTANCE TO TRAPPED MINERS IN CHILE HOUSTON -- From 5:30-6 p.m. EDT, NASA Television will air excerpts of an interview with Dr. Michael Duncan, who is leading a NASA team to Chile. NASA has been ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FOREST FIRES IN OREGON Lightning ignited several large fires in the Cascade Mountains in central Oregon in August 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45503&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 25, 2010 (Posted on Aug 27, 2010 12:41 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM M ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov Susan Christian City of Houston 832-393-0868 susan.christian@cityofhouston.net RELEASE: 10-201 NASA RECEIVES SPIRIT OF HOUSTON AWARD HOUSTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden accepted the Spirit of Houston Award from the city's Mayor Annise Parker on Thursday. The award was established in 2004 t ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-199 U2 AND NASA CREATE VIDEO TO CELEBRATE COLLABORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and U2 released a commemorative video highlighting a year's worth of collaboration in space and on the Irish rock band's 360 Degree tour. U2 approached NASA in 2009 with an idea to include a dialogue between the band and the crew of the International Space Station during U2's world tour. The astronauts of Expedition 20, the crew then livi ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-200 NASA TV AIRS INTERVIEW WITH TWIN ASTRONAUTS; KELLY BROTHERS SCHEDULED TO BE IN SPACE TOGETHER HOUSTON -- Interview footage of two NASA astronauts scheduled next year to become the first twins to rendezvous in space is available on NASA Television and the agency's websi ...Continue Reading

Aug. 26, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-048 NASA AWARDS FACILITY OPERATING SERVICES CONTRACT AWARD TERM PERIOD 1 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has exercised award term period 1 of the Facility Operating Services Contract (FOSC) with Jacobs Technology, Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn. The FOSC ...Continue Reading

Aug. 26, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-197 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION DISCOVERS TWO PLANETS TRANSITING SAME STAR WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. The transit signatures of t ...Continue Reading