There are 2 messages totalling 95 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA EXTENDS SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION SPACESUIT CONTRACT 2. NASA ROVER IN INAUGURAL PARADE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:14:36 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION SPACESUIT CONTRACT January 16, 2009 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2009 Michael Curie/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100/0668 michael.curie@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-011 56TH INAUGURATION FEATURES NASA ASTRONAUTS, LUNAR ROVER, PANORAMIC PHOTOS AND LIVE TWITTER WASHINGTON -- NASA astronauts who recently returned from a trip to the International Space Station will join representatives from across the country and the nation's armed forces in the 56th Inaugural Parade. The NASA contingent will include a next-generation lunar ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER THE RED SEA Dust plumes blew off the coast of Saudi Arabia and over the Red Sea in mid-January 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36668 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 15, 2009 (Posted on Jan 15, 2009 2:35 PM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-012 DEADLINE NEARS FOR STUDENT CONTEST TO NAME NASA'S NEXT MARS ROVER WASHINGTON -- NASA is issuing a last call to the nation's youth for entries in a contest to name the agency's next Mars rover. The naming contest, in partnership with Disney-Pixar's WALL-E, invites ideas from students 5 to 18 years old and en ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-010 NASA RADAR PROVIDES FIRST LOOK INSIDE MOON'S SHADOWED CRATERS WASHINGTON -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. The Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, has passed its initial in-flight tests and sent back its first data. The images show the floors of per ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2009 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-009 REPORT CALLS AEROSOL RESEARCH KEY TO IMPROVING CLIMATE PREDICTIONS WASHINGTON -- Scientists need a more detailed understanding of how human-produced atmospheric particles, called aerosols, affect climate in order to produce better predictions of Earth's future climate, according to a NASA-led report issued by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program on Friday. "Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Cl ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-003 NASA EXTENDS SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION SPACESUIT CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised an $86 million, one-year contract option with Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International of Windsor Locks, Conn., for work on spacesuits used on the space shuttles and the International Space Station. This wi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-011 ASTRONAUTS CALL LAKEBAY WASHINGTON STUDENTS FROM SPACE STATION MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Reporters are invited to witness students from Key Peninsula Middle School of Lakebay, Wash., while they chat with NASA Expedition 18 astronauts Mike Fincke and S ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-012 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO VIEW LUNAR ROVER DRIVEN AT INAUGURAL PARADE WASHINGTON -- Reporters are invited to attend a briefing about the NASA Lunar Electric Rover concept vehicle that will be driven down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington as part of the presidential inaugural parade on Jan. 20. The rover is part of a new generation of prototype vehicles that NASA is evaluating for use when ast ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones/Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/5017 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov, william.a.steigerwald@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-006 DISCOVERY OF METHANE REVEALS MARS IS NOT A DEAD PLANET WASHINGTON -- A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery indicates the planet is either biologically ...Continue Reading