Jan. 28, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-018 NASA SEEKS CONCEPT PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE MOON LANDER WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, NASA issued a request for proposals for concept definition and requirements analysis support for the Altair lunar lander. Proposals are due to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston by 2 p.m. CS ...Continue Reading

Jan. 28, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Donna Weaver Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 dweaver@stsci.edu villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 09-020 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO CHOOSE HUBBLE'S NEXT DISCOVERY WASHINGTON -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before. NASA is inviting the public ...Continue Reading

Jan. 28, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov Audrey Staples National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va. 757-325-6981 audrey.staples@nianet.org RELEASE: 09-019 AWARD-WINNING NASA TV SHOW LAUNCHES SECOND SEASON HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA 360, a half-hour television program that explores NASA's contributions to everyday life, is cele ...Continue Reading

Jan. 27, 2009 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-020 NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers have scheduled a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for no earlier than 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 3, to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The news conference wil ...Continue Reading

Jan. 27, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-017 NASA CHALLENGES UNIVERSITY STUDENT LAUNCH INITIATIVE TEAMS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Twenty student teams selected by NASA from colleges and universities around the country are spending the winter building sophisticated rockets they will launch high over Alabama during NASA's 2008-2009 University Studen ...Continue Reading

Jan. 27, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-019 NASA-DERIVED TECHNOLOGY CAPTURES UNIQUE INAUGURAL IMAGE WASHINGTON -- NASA spinoff technology from the Mars exploration rovers was used to capture a unique panoramic image of President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. A photographer at the inauguration, David Bergman, used the Gigapan camera system to generate an image from a press platform. The resulting pictur ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- CYCLONE DOMINIC Cyclone Dominic swirled off the northwestern coast of Australia in late January 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36795 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 27, 2009 (Posted on Jan 27, 2009 11:45 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36787 *** MODIS(Aqua) ...Continue Reading

Jan. 27, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-018 NASA KEPLER LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ACCREDITATION ENDS FEB. 5 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets aro ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUME OFF EGYPT A dust plume several hundred kilometers long blew off the north coast of Egypt and over the Mediterranean Sea in late January 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36783 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 23, 2008 (Posted on Jan 23, 2009 3:03 PM) ---------------------------- ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 49 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SPACE SHUTTLE CREW VISITS TROOPS ON OVERSEAS TRIP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:38:16 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SPACE SHUTTLE CREW VISITS TROOPS ON OVERSEAS TRIP January 23, 2009 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M09-015 SPACE ...Continue Reading