June 23rd 2009 PDT
June 23 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-144 NASA LUNAR MISSION SUCCESSFULLY ENTERS MOON ORBIT GREENBELT, Md. -- After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gree ...Continue Reading
June 23rd 2009 PDT
There are 2 messages totalling 79 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. TOUCH THE MOON THIS WEEK AT NASA EXHIBIT IN GREEN BANK, WV 2. NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION SUPPORT CONTRACT TO ARES CORP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:06:48 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: TOUCH THE MOON THIS WEEK AT NASA EXHIBIT IN GREEN BANK, WV June 22, 2009 Linda Matthews-Schmidt Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-8609 Report #RELEASE: J09-013 TOUCH T ...Continue Reading
June 23rd 2009 PDT
June 22, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-032 NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION SUPPORT CONTRACT TO ARES CORP. WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $144 million follow-on contract with ARES Corp. of Burlingame, Calif., for International Space Station Program integration and control services. ARES will provide support for configuration management, data ...Continue Reading
June 23rd 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OFF WESTERN AFRICA Saharan sand blew off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal on June 22, 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39014&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 22, 2009 (Posted on Jun 22, 2009 1:48 PM) DUST STORM IN THE MIDDLE EAST A dust storm struck the Middle East ...Continue Reading
June 23rd 2009 PDT
June 22, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-112 NASA UPDATES MEDIA CREDENTIALS DEADLINES FOR NEXT SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA is updating its media accreditation deadlines for the next space shuttle flight to the International Space Station. Shuttle Endeavour is targeted to launch July 11 to begin mission STS-127. The 16-day flight will deliver a new station crew member and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Ex ...Continue Reading
June 20th 2009 PDT
June 19, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Keith Henry Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6120/344-7211 h.k.henry@nasa.gov Rebecca Powell Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1139 rebecca.h.powell@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-111 NASA RESCHEDULES TEST OF MAX LAUNCH ABORT SYSTEM FOR JUNE 25 WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Because of delays completing preliminary tests at the launch site ...Continue Reading
June 20th 2009 PDT
June 19, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-141 NASA AWARDS TWO SMALL EXPLORER DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected two science proposals to be developed into full missions as part of the agency's Small Explorer, or SMEX, Program. The selections will implement projects that will study our sun and some of the most exotic objects in the universe, such as neutron stars and black holes. Both missions will launch by 2015; the first co ...Continue Reading
June 20th 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN CENTRAL AFRICA Fires burned throughout Central Africa in mid-June 2009, from Lake Tanganyika to the Atlantic Ocean. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39003&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 16, 2009 (Posted on Jun 19, 2009 12:36 PM) FIRES IN AUSTRALIA'S KAKADU NATIONAL PARK Early-season fires (pr ...Continue Reading
June 19th 2009 PDT
There are 2 messages totalling 113 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA CHOOSES THREE NEW FLIGHT DIRECTORS TO LEAD MISSION CONTROL 2. NASA AWARDS FIRST RECOVERY ACT CONTRACT FOR JOHNSON REPAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:38:00 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA CHOOSES THREE NEW FLIGHT DIRECTORS TO LEAD MISSION CONTROL June 12, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Cen ...Continue Reading
June 19th 2009 PDT
June 18, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Jonas Dino Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-207-3280 jonas.dino@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-143 NASA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES LUNAR IMPACTOR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. T ...Continue Reading
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