There is 1 message totalling 55 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TWEET THEIR WAY INTO SPACE NEXT WEEK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:17:51 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TWEET THEIR WAY INTO SPACE NEXT WEEK February 4, 2010 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H10-035 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TWEET THEIR ...Continue Reading

Feb. 04, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-035 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TWEET THEIR WAY INTO SPACE NEXT WEEK HOUSTON -- The Twitterverse and universe will converge during space shuttle Endeavour's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. NASA is inviting the public to send questions for the astronauts via Twitter and have them answered live from space. ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM OLI Tropical Cyclone Oli swirled over the South Pacific in early February 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42529&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Feb 02, 2010 (Posted on Feb 03, 2010 5:04 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards ...Continue Reading

Feb. 4, 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: 10-033 PLUTO'S WHITE, DARK-ORANGE AND CHARCOAL-BLACK TERRAIN CAPTURED BY NASA'S HUBBLE WASHINGTON -- NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, mottled, dark molasses-colored world undergoing season ...Continue Reading

Feb. 4, 2010 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/202-358-0668 Ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov grey.hartaluoma-1@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-1403 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov Dan Flores General Motors, Warren, Mich. 313-418-2374 daniel.flores@gm.com RELEASE: 10-035 NASA AND GM CREATE CUTTING EDGE ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON -- NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related ...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 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