June 1, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-100 NASA SETS PREVIEW BRIEFING, TV SCHEDULE FOR STATION SPACEWALKS HOUSTON -- Two residents of the International Space Station will conduct a pair of spacewalks in the coming weeks to prepare the Russian segment of the station for future assembly work. The activities will be broadcast live on NASA Television and previewe ...Continue Reading

June 1, 2009 Doc Mirelson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4495 doc.mirelson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-123 NASA ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REVIEW COMMITTEE WASHINGTON -- NASA announced Monday the members of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee. They are: - Norman Augustine (chair), retired chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corp., and former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - Dr. Wanda Austin, ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-099 NASA'S "ASTRO_MIKE" SET FOR TV INTERVIEWS, WEB APPEARANCE JUNE 3 HOUSTON -- Astronaut Mike Massimino will be available Wednesday, June 3, for media satellite interviews and questions from the public via a special interactive Internet appearance. He will discuss his space shuttle flight after ret ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-026 NASA AWARDS LIQUID NITROGEN AND LIQUID OXYGEN CONTRACTS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected three companies to provide liquid nitrogen, or LN2, and liquid oxygen, or LOX, to six agency facilities supporting activities for the Space Operations Mission Directorate and Exploration System Mission Directorate. Lind ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-025 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR AIRSPACE CONCEPT EVALUATION SYSTEM WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass., to receive an Airspace Concept Evaluation System, or ACES, follow-on contract valued at $29 million. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that begins June 1. The base ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-095 NASA SETS BRIEFING ABOUT SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR'S READINESS TO LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers will hold a news conference on Wednesday, June 3, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin after the end of the Flight Readiness R ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS FROM CYCLONE AILA IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH Cyclone Aila flooded large areas of India and Bangladesh in late May 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38795&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 28, 2009 (Posted on May 29, 2009 9:09 AM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Alan Brown Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-2665 alan.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-097 NASA DRYDEN TO HOST 2009 POWER BEAMING CHALLENGE JULY 14 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Centennial Challenges Program and the Spaceward Foundation will hold the 2009 Power-Beaming Challenge, part of Spaceward's Space Elevator Games, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., o ...Continue Reading

May 29, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-098 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS SET TO RETURN TO FLORIDA EDWARDS, Calif. -- After landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 24 following the successful Hubble Space Telescope servicing mi ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 90 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. TOLEDO NATIVE COMPLETES INTERNSHIP AT NASA 2. NEW STATION CREW LAUNCHES ON SOYUZ; BRIEFING FROM SPACE ON JUNE 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:41:02 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: TOLEDO NATIVE COMPLETES INTERNSHIP AT NASA May 28, 2009 Jenna C. Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J09-012 TOLEDO NATIVE COMPLETES INTERNSHIP AT NASA HOU ...Continue Reading