July 17, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov Andy Freeberg Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0746 andy.freeberg@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-168 NASA'S LRO SPACECRAFT GETS ITS FIRST LOOK AT APOLLO LANDING SITES WASHINGTON -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shad ...Continue Reading

July 17, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-163 NASA RELEASES ORBITING CARBON OBSERVATORY ACCIDENT SUMMARY WASHINGTON -- A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, has completed its report. NASA's OCO satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide launched aboard a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Feb. 24 at 4:55 a.m. EST, but it failed to r ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 115 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-127 MCC Status Report #02 2. APOLLO ERA VETERANS TO THROW FIRST PITCH AT ASTROS NASA NIGHT 3. STS-127 MCC Status Report #03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:26:21 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #02 STS-127 Report #02 7 a.m. CDT Thursday, July 16, 2009 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON – Seven astron ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Ruth Dasso Marlaire Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4709 ruth.marlaire@nasa.gov Jim Scott University of Colorado at Boulder 303-492-3114 jim.scott@colorado.edu RELEASE: 09-167 NASA AIRBORNE EXPEDITION CHASES ARCTIC SEA ICE QUESTIONS WASHINGTON -- A small NASA aircraft completed its first successful science flight Thursday as part of an expedition to study the receding Arctic sea ice and ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-134 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS CONFERENCE WITH NEXT SPACE STATION CREW HOUSTON -- A NASA astronaut, Russian cosmonaut and the founder of Cirque du Soleil will hold a news conference at 8 a.m. CDT, Thursday, July 23 to discuss their upcoming flight to the International Space Station. Jeff Williams, Maxim Sur ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Andy Freeberg Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0746 andy.freeberg@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-133 NASA BRIEFS MEDIA ON NEW IMAGES OF APOLLO LUNAR LANDING SITES GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has sent back its first images of Apollo lunar landing sites. The agency will release the images Friday, July 17, at noon and hold a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT to ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER THE RED SEA Dust blew across the Red Sea, from Sudan toward Saudi Arabia, in mid-July 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39379&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 15, 2009 (Posted on Jul 15, 2009 5:22 PM) ------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-132 NASA SETS MEDIA CREDENTIALS DEADLINES FOR NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the next space shuttle flight to the International Space Station. Shuttle Discovery is targeted to launch Aug. 18 to begin its mission, designated STS-128. Discovery's seven-member crew will deliver 33,000 pounds of equipment including: science and storage r ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2009 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1760 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov Mark Hess Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-6255 mark.s.hess@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-166 NASA RELEASES RESTORED APOLLO 11 MOONWALK VIDEO WASHINGTON -- NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon. The initial video release, part of a ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 613 2009 Jul 16 Somerville, MA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- Gennadiy Padalka (Commander, Russia), Mike Barratt (Flight Engineer 1, NASA), Koichi Wakata (FE2, Japan-JAXA), Roman Romanenko (FE3, Russia), Frank DeWinne (FE4, European Space Agency) and Bob Thirsk (FE5, Canadian Space Agency) are aboard the station as Expedition 20. Soyuz TMA-15 and Soyuz TMA-1 ...Continue Reading