Sept. 11, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 june.e.malone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-231 NASA CONDUCTS FIRST TEST ON NEW MOTOR FOR THE ARES I ROCKET HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical moto ...Continue Reading

Sept. 11, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-175 HURRICANE IKE IMPACT FELT IN SPACE HOUSTON -- Hurricane Ike has delayed the scheduled Friday arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship at the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth. The Progress docking was postponed when the space station's control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houst ...Continue Reading

Sept. 11, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-174 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR TO MOVE TO LAUNCH PAD SEPT. 18 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Sept. 18, in preparation for shuttle Atlantis' mission to repair the Hubble Space Tel ...Continue Reading

Sept. 11 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov Terry Wood Jim Bridger Middle School, Las Vegas 414-573-1700 tmwood@interact.ccsd.net MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-173 NASA ASTRONAUTS CONNECT WITH LUCKY LAS VEGAS SCHOOL KIDS MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Journalists are invited to join a group of Las Vegas students who have "struck ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 10 September 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER THE MIDDLE EAST Dust plumes blew over Iraq and neighboring countries in early September 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15066 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 10 2008 (Posted on Sep 10 2008 1:17PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, AND SOUTH AFRICA In late August and early September 2008, widespread fires in Mozambique, Zi ...Continue Reading

Sept. 11, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 john.i.petty@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-230 NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER CLOSES FOR IKE HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center will close at noon CDT Thursday and remain closed until the threat of Hurricane Ike has passed. Ike, a category 2 hurricane in the western Gulf of Mexico, is expected to cross the Texas coast early Sat ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 june.e.malone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-228 NASA'S ARES I ROCKET PASSES REVIEW TO REACH CRITICAL MILESTONE HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has taken a major step toward building the nation's next generation launch vehicle with Wednesday's successful com ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Sofiya Cabalquinto Museum of Science Boston, Mass. 617-589-0454 scabalquinto@mos.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-229 NASA TO HOLD FUTURE FORUM IN BOSTON BOSTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address at 8:45 a.m. EDT, Thursday, Sept 18, at Boston's Museum of Science to kick off next week's Future Forum. The event is part of a year-long series celebr ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-056 NASA AMES AWARDS CONTRACT FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., Wednesday awarded a bridge contract for information technology support to Perot Systems Government Services Inc. of Fairfax, Va. The Ames Consolidated ...Continue Reading

Sept. 10, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Katherine K. Martin Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2406 katherine.k.martin@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-227 NASA DEVELOPING FISSION SURFACE POWER TECHNOLOGY CLEVELAND -- NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the ...Continue Reading