The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST EAST AND WEST OF THE RED SEA Dust stirred on either side of the Red Sea in late March 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37629&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 24, 2009 (Posted on Mar 24, 2009 5:14 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA Drenching ...Continue Reading

March 25, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Ruth Marlaire Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4709 ruth.marlaire@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-045 HAWAII STUDENTS TO RECEIVE SPECIAL CALL FROM SPACE HONOLULU -- The Hawaii Space Grant Consortium and Punahou School in Honolulu will host a live education downlink from space shuttle Discovery with STS-119 mission specialists Joe Acaba, Richard Arnold and Sandy Magnus. Acaba and Arnold are bot ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 57 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-119 MCC Status Report #18 2. STS-119 MCC Status Report #19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:38:46 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-119 MCC Status Report #18 STS-119 Report #18 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 7:30 a.m. CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas The crew members on board space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station get a breat ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-1880 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-015 NASA AWARDS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR ROCKET ENGINE TESTING WASHINGTON -- NASA signed a contract Tuesday with Roy Anderson Corp. of Gulfport, Miss., for a general construction package on the A-3 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The five-year, indefinite delivery, ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Rob Lazaro Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 robert.lazaro-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-070 VETERAN ASTRONAUT SCOTT PARAZYNSKI LEAVES NASA HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski is leaving the agency to take a job in the private sector. Parazynski, a medical doctor, is a veteran of five space shuttle flights and seven spacewalks. "Scott is an exceptional astronaut who has served NASA and the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Heavy seasonal rain triggered floods in Angola and Namibia in March 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37619&src=nha *** image from Mar 23, 2009 (Posted on Mar 23, 2009 5:47 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- REBOUBT VOLCANO STIRS After keeping ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov Julie Woodbury/Rapid Response Team Waggener Edstrom Worldwide for Microsoft 503- 443-7000/7070 juliew@waggeneredstrom.com, rrt@waggeneredstrom.com RELEASE: 09-067 NASA AND MICROSOFT TO MAKE UNIVERSE OF DATA AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC WASHINGTON -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday plans to make planetary images a ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 102 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-119 MCC Status Report #16 2. NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC. 3. STS-119 MCC Status Report #17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:06:27 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-119 MCC Status Report #16 STS-119 Report #16 Monday, March 23, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas Readying the International Space Station for ...Continue Reading

March 23, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-044 NASA SETS TELECONFERENCE TO DISCUSS RECOVERED METEORITES WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference on Wednesday, March 25, at 2 p.m. EDT to reveal science findings from recently discovered meteorites. The meteorites originate from a small asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan on Oct. 7, 2008. The discovery presents sc ...Continue Reading

March 23, 2009 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-014 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC. WASHINGTON -- NASA will exercise the first of two one-year options on a five-year contract to Jacobs Technology Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., for test and evaluation support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. NASA's Johnson Space Center in ...Continue Reading