There is 1 message totalling 28 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:59 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #01 STS-126 Report #01 7:30 p.m. CST Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour lit the Florida night sky with a 6:55 p.m. CST launch on a mission to outfit the Interna ...Continue Reading

Nov. 14, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-294 NASA'S SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR LAUNCHES ON HOME IMPROVEMENT MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:55 p.m. EST Friday to repair and remodel the International Space Station. Endeavour's STS-126 m ...Continue Reading

Nov. 14, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-293 NASA SHUTTLE CARRIES CAMERA TO HELP FARMERS WASHINGTON -- Among the 32,000 pounds of cargo in NASA's space shuttle Endeavour, which is set to launch Friday, there is a camera that will help U.S. farmers and provide unique educational opportunities for students. Students and fa ...Continue Reading

Nov. 14, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-292 NASA OFFERS NEW SCIENCE TEACHING CERTIFICATE PROJECT WASHINGTON -- NASA has unveiled the Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project, which will award more than 200 fellowships to educators during a five year period. Educators accepted into the project will be exposed to current NASA science and engineering and supported in translating the information for use in ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN QUEENSLAND In late October 2008, scattered fires burned across Queensland from Cape York Peninsula to the area around the city of Rockhampton. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35895 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 14, 2008 (Posted on Nov 14, 2008 10:50 AM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13 2008 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 june.e.malone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-290 NASA'S NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENGINE FOR ARES ROCKET PASSES REVIEW HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Th ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Kimberly Newton Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5026 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-291 NASA RESTORES HISTORIC LUNAR ORBITER IMAGE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. Using refurbished machinery and modern digital tech ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 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 RELEASE: 08-289 HUBBLE DIRECTLY OBSERVES A PLANET ORBITING ANOTHER STAR WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhau ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-288 NASA TESTS LUNAR ROVERS AND OXYGEN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY HILO, Hawaii -- NASA has concluded nearly two weeks of testing equipment and lunar rover concepts on Hawaii's volcanic soil. The agency's In Situ Resource Utilization Project, which studies ways astronauts can use resources found at landing sites, demonstrated how people might prospect for resources on the moon and make their own oxygen from ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the Himalaya in late October 2008. The haze probably resulted from a combination of agricultural fires and urban pollution, and may have contained some airborne dust. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35888 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 11, 2008 (Posted on No ...Continue Reading