Nov. 24, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-309 NASA PREPARES FOR NEW JUNO MISSION TO JUPITER WASHINGTON -- NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. Called Juno, the mission will be the first in which a spacecraft is placed in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the giant planet ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Gusty winds drove wildfires into southern California cities in mid-November 2008. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35992 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Nov 22, 2008 (Posted on Nov 24, 2008 11:47 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a serv ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 67 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #18 2. STS-126 MCC Status Report #19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:20:42 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #18 STS-126 Report #18 Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 10 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke will continue work Sunday on a system in the International Sp ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 60 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #16 2. STS-126 MCC Status Report #17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:31:36 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #16 STS-126 Report #16 9 a.m. CST Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON – The third spacewalk by Endeavour astronauts outside the International Space Stat ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 109 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #14 2. NASA TO BROADCAST SHUTTLE MISSION HIGHLIGHTS IN HIGH DEFINITION 3. STS-126 MCC Status Report #15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:57:11 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #14 STS-126 Report #14 Friday, November 21, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas After completing a spacew ...Continue Reading

Nov. 21, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-237 NASA TO BROADCAST SHUTTLE MISSION HIGHLIGHTS IN HIGH DEFINITION WASHINGTON -- NASA Television is broadcasting highlights from the ongoing STS-126 space shuttle mission in high definition (HDTV). The NASA HDTV highlights will be broadcast on Saturday, Nov. 22, and Sunday, Nov. 23, at 8:30 a.m. an ...Continue Reading

Nov. 21, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-306 NASA ASSIGNS SPACE STATION CREWS, UPDATES EXPEDITION NUMBERING HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have assigned the International Space Station's crew members through 2010. The numbering sequence of expeditions was modified to reflect the start of six-person crews. The update to the ...Continue Reading

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