Feb. 3, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-021 CORRECTION -- GLOW-IN-THE-DARK PLANTS ARE HIGHLIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCIENCE BRIEFING CORRECTION of briefing date and time to noon EST, Feb. 5. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will shed light on plant investigations aboard the International Space Station in a briefing at noon EST, Friday, Fe ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-005 NASA EXTENDS SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT AT MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER IN ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has exercised a second one-year option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services in support of the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at NASA's Marsh ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-021 GLOW-IN-THE-DARK PLANTS ARE HIGHLIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCIENCE BRIEFING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will shed light on plant investigations aboard the International Space Station in a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Friday, Jan. 5. The briefing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-030 NASA EXTENDS CASSINI'S TOUR OF SATURN, CONTINUING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR WORLD CLASS SCIENCE WASHINGTON -- NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017. The agency's fiscal year 2011 budget provides a $60 million per year extension for cont ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Morrie Goodman Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 morrie.goodman@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-032 NASA ADMINISTRATOR NAMES WOODROW WHITLOW ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR MISSION SUPPORT WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named Dr. Woodrow Whitlow, Jr., the associate administrator for Mission Support at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Whitlow will continue to serve as the director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland until a successor is named. In this new posi ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE FAMI Tropical Cyclone Fami hovered over Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel in early February 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42523&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 02, 2010 (Posted on Feb 02, 2010 5:18 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2010 Morrie Goodman Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 morrie.goodman@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-031 NASA ADMINISTRATOR NAMES BRAUN NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden named Robert D. Braun the agency's Chief Technologist, effective Wednesday, Feb. 3. Braun serves as the principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs. The appointment comes as NASA launches a bold new initiative that targets technologies that c ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING NEAR MACHU PICCHU, PERU Heavy rain in the Andes Mountains in early February 2010 damaged roads, trails, train tracks, and bridges around the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42501&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Feb 01, 2010 (Posted on Feb 01, 2010 5:56 PM) -- VOLCAN ...Continue Reading

Feb. 02, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 10-029 SUSPECTED ASTEROID COLLISION LEAVES TRAILING DEBRIS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down throu ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 65 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SELECTS COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT USING RECOVERY ACT FUNDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:46:29 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SELECTS COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT ...Continue Reading