Feb. 13, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-025 NASA SETS FEB. 20 NEWS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference Friday, Feb. 20, following a review of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and an assessment of shuttle flow control valve testing. An official launch date for the STS-119 mission has no ...Continue Reading

Feb. 13, 2009 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: C09-005 NASA EXTENDS SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT AT MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised a one-year option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services in support of the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- BUSHFIRES IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA Out-of-control bushfires killed more than 100 people in southeastern Australia in early February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37020 *** ALI(EO-1) image from Feb 10, 2009 (Posted on Feb 13, 2009 10:51 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id= ...Continue Reading

Feb. 12, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-024 NASA TO HOLD BRIEFING ABOUT UPCOMING KEPLER EXOPLANET MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m. EST, to discuss ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Agricultural fires of many kinds are common in Southeast Asia in the late winter, which is the mid-dry season for the region. Widespread fires were detected across Cambodia in satellite images from early February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36994 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from F ...Continue Reading

Feb. 11, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.Hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-030 NASA LUNAR SPACECRAFT SHIPS SOUTH IN PREPARATION FOR LAUNCH GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for Apri ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 39 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:44:06 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION February 10, 2009 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H09-026 NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SH ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jane Platt Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0880 jane.platt@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-029 NASA RECEIVES SHORTY TWITTER AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter. Known as the Shorty Award, it was created to honor the best producers of short content on ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif. 707-664-2655 lynnc@universe.sonoma.edu RELEASE: 09-028 NASA'S SWIFT, FERMI PROBE FIREWORKS FROM A FLARING GAMMA-RAY STAR WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star know ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 09-026 NASA'S GREAT OBSERVATORIES CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY WASHINGTON -- Galileo first tu ...Continue Reading