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

Nov. 19, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-235 ENDEAVOUR, SPACE STATION NEWS CONFERENCE SET FOR FRIDAY HOUSTON -- The 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 2:05 p.m. CST on Friday, Nov. 21. Reporters may ask questions in person only from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Housto ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN ETHIOPIA Heavy rains starting on November 2 pushed several rivers in southeastern Ethiopia over their banks. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35935 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 18, 2008 (Posted on Nov 19, 2008 1:40 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural ...Continue Reading

Nov. 19, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-301 MYSTERIOUS SOURCE OF HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RADIATION DISCOVERED WASHINGTON -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica. Researchers from the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) collaboration, led by scientists at Louisiana State University, ...Continue Reading

Nov. 19, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Rhea Borja Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 rhea.r.borja@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-299 NASA PLANS TEST OF 'ELECTRONIC NOSE' ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 64 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-126 MCC Status Report #08 2. STS-126 MCC Status Report #09 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:02:49 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-126 MCC Status Report #08 STS-126 Report #08 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas The first of four spacewalks scheduled for Endeavour crew members at the International Space S ...Continue Reading