Nov. 21, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-307 NASA AND USAID BRING EARTH-OBSERVATION BENEFITS TO AFRICA WASHINGTON -- NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and their international partners cut the ribbon Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, for SERVIR-Africa. The SERVIR-Africa system integrates the satellite resources of the United S ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 66 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #12 2. STS-126 MCC Status Report #13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:06 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #12 STS-126 Report #12 Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas The second spacewalk by Endeavour astronauts outside the International Space Station will be ...Continue Reading

Nov. 20, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-7199 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov Emily Outen Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022 emily.s.outen@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-306 NASA, ATK SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRST ORION LAUNCH ABORT MOTOR WASHINGTON -- Flames shot more than 100 feet high in a successful 5.5-second ground test firing T ...Continue Reading

Nov. 20, 2008 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: 08-304 NASA SPACECRAFT DETECTS BURIED GLACIERS ON MARS PASADENA, Calif.-- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. Scientists analyzed data from the spa ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PLUME FROM RABAUL VOLCANO Rabaul Volcano, on the northeastern tip of Papua New Guinea’s island of New Britain released a plume of ash and steam in late November 2008. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35960 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from No ...Continue Reading

Nov. 20, 2008 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: 08-305 RACERS GET READY! NASA'S GREAT MOONBUGGY REGISTRATION BEGINS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Registration is open for NASA's 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race, taking place April 3-4, 2009, in Huntsville, Ala. Each year, NASA challenges high schools and colleges across the ...Continue Reading

Nov. 20, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Lynnette B. Madison/Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov, bill.j.byerly@nasa.gov Trina Patterson ATK, Promontory, Utah 801-699-0943 trina.patterson@atk.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-236 NASA TO BRIEF MEDIA ABOUT TEST OF ORION LAUNCH ABORT SYSTEM MOTOR PROMONTORY, Utah -- NASA, ATK, Orbital Sciences Corp. and Lockheed Mart ...Continue Reading

Nov. 20, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.r.mould@nasa.gov Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3333 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-303 GOLDMAN NAMED DIRECTOR AT STENNIS SPACE CENTER WASHINGTON -- NASA has named Arthur E. (Gene) Goldman as the new director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The promotion of Goldman, the center's deputy director since October 2006, is effective immediately. He replaces Bob Cabana, who left in October to b ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 113 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #10 2. ENDEAVOUR, SPACE STATION NEWS CONFERENCE SET FOR FRIDAY 3. STS-126 MCC Status Report #11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:59:01 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #10 STS-126 Report #10 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas Moving of supplies and equipme ...Continue Reading

Nov. 19, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jeff Sherwood DOE Headquarters, Washington 202-586-5806 jeff.sherwood@doe.gov RELEASE: 08-300 NASA AND DOE COLLABORATE ON DARK ENERGY RESEARCH WASHINGTON -- NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Joint Dark Energy Mission, or JDEM. The mission will feature the first space-based observatory designed specifically to ...Continue Reading