May 21, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-091 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO VIEW SPACE STATION'S TRANQUILITY MODULE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will provide an opportunity for reporters to see the newest section of the International Space Station, the Tranquility module, at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 8. Tranquility is a pressuri ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov Jonas Dino Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5612 jonas.dino@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-116 NASA DETAILS PLANS FOR LUNAR EXPLORATION ROBOTIC MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Gay Yee Hill Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0344 gay.y.hill@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-117 NASA ROVER SEES VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AT MARTIAN CRATER PASADENA, Calif. -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater o ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN RUSSIA AND MONGOLIA Large, smoky fires were burning in the forested mountains of Russia's Buryatia region and Mongolia's Belenge province in May 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38697&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 21, 2009 (Posted on May 21, 2009 11:30 AM) ------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2009 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-112 NASA SHARES COLLIER TROPHY AWARD FOR AVIATION SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES WASHINGTON -- For the second year in a row, NASA is part of a team chosen to receive one of the most prestigious awards in aviation. On May 28, the National Aeronautics Association will present the 2008 Robert J. Collier Trophy to the Co ...Continue Reading

May 21, 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: M09-090 HUBBLE SERVICING CREW SET TO RETURN TO EARTH FRIDAY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The seven astronauts who upgraded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expected to return to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Friday after an 11-day mission. The two landing opportunities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Flori ...Continue Reading

There are 4 messages totalling 153 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-125 MCC Status Report #18 2. CHICAGO NATIVE HELPING NASA RETURN TO THE MOON AND BEYOND 3. NASA GIVES SPACE STATION CREW 'GO' TO DRINK RECYCLED WATER 4. STS-125 MCC Status Report #19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 03:08:09 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-125 MCC Status Report #18 STS-125 Report #18 Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 3:30 a.m. CDT Mission Con ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-096 NASA GIVES SPACE STATION CREW 'GO' TO DRINK RECYCLED WATER HOUSTON -- NASA's Mission Control gave the Expedition 19 astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station a "go" to drink water that the station's new recycling system has purified. Mission Control radioed the news to the crew Wednes ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jim Scott University of Colorado, Boulder 303-492-3114 jim.scott@colorado.edu RELEASE: 09-111 NASA STUDY SHOWS ASTEROIDS MAY HAVE ACCELERATED LIFE ON EARTH WASHINGTON -- A NASA-funded study indicates that an intense asteroid bombardment nearly 4 billion years ago may not have sterilized the early Earth as completely as previously thought. The asteroids, some the size of Kansas, possibly even provided a boost for earl ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2009 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-113 NASA TESTS LARGEST ROCKET PARACHUTES EVER FOR ARES I HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first test of the Ares I rocket's three main parachutes Wednesday. The parachutes -- the largest rocket parachutes ever ...Continue Reading