Dec. 23, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-069 NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES CONTRACTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded two contracts -- one to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., and one to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif. -- for commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station. At t ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- CYCLONE BILLY Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. The storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall and local flooding to parts of the Kimberley Coast. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36261 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 22, 2008 (Posted on Dec 22, 2008 3:58 P ...Continue Reading

Dec. 22, 2008 Al Feinberg Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1058 al.feinberg@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-268 NASA TELEVISION COMMEMORATES APOLLO 8 CHRISTMAS EVE BROADCAST WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the historic Christmas Eve broadcast by the Apollo 8 crew with special programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101). Forty years ago, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to visit another heavenly body as they successfully orbit ...Continue Reading

Dec. 22, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones/Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/4044 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov, robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-335 NEXT NASA MOON MISSION COMPLETES MAJOR MILESTONE GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after l ...Continue Reading

Dec. 22, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-267 NASA TO ANNOUNCE SPACE STATION RESUPPLY SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference with Associate Administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier at 4 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 23, to discuss the contract selection for commercial cargo resupply services for the International Space Station. NASA released a Request for Proposal on April 14 for the cargo needs of th ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- TYPHOON DOLPHIN In mid-December 2008, the Pacific Ocean brewed up a tropical storm that strengthened into Typhoon Dolphin on December 15. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36191 *** (TRMM) image from Dec 14, 2008 (Posted on Dec 16, 2008 11:30 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view. ...Continue Reading

Dec. 16, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-7199 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 08-329 DARK ENERGY FOUND STIFLING GROWTH IN UNIVERSE WASHINGTON -- For the first time, astronomers have clearly seen the effects of "dark energy&qu ...Continue Reading

Dec. 16, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-327 NEW OCEANOGRAPHY MISSION DATA NOW AVAILABLE WASHINGTON -- Oceanography data that will help scientists around the world better understand climate change are now available. The data come from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission, also known as OSTM/Jason-2, a spacecraft developed jointly by NASA and the French spac ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 54 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:35:52 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS December 15, 2008 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M08-261 SPACE STATION AS ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2008 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov/ grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3333 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-326 NASA'S STENNIS SPACE CENTER TO TEST ROCKET ENGINE FOR TAURUS II BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center will provide propulsion system acceptance testing for the Taurus II space launch vehicle, which Orbital Sciences ...Continue Reading