March 05, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-049 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION SET FOR LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Fr ...Continue Reading

March 04, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-035 NASA SETS MARCH 6 NEWS BRIEFING ABOUT NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference Friday, March 6, following a review of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and an assessment of shuttle flow control valve testing and inspection. The news conference will begin no earlier tha ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SNOW STORM BLANKETS EAST COAST A major snowstorm blanketed the U.S. East Coast with heavy snow in the first days of March 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37261 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 03, 2009 (Posted on Mar 03, 2009 2:56 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 38 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ANNOUNCES CHANGE FOR RETURN OF STATION CREW MEMBERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:43:15 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ANNOUNCES CHANGE FOR RETURN OF STATION CREW MEMBERS March 3, 2009 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M09-034c NASA ANNOUNCES CHANGE FOR ...Continue Reading

March 03, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/202-358-1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Emily Outen Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022 emily.s.outen@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-048 NASA'S LAUNCH ABORT SYSTEM HARDWARE STARTS CROSS COUNTRY TREK HAMPTON, Va. -- A full-scale mock-up of NASA's Orion launch abort system began a week-long flatbed trailer ride across the country Tuesday, en route to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. On ...Continue Reading

March 03, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-047 NASA ANNOUNCES MISHAP BOARD MEMBERS FOR OCO INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the members of the board that will investigate the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, on Feb. 24. Rick Obenschain, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will lead the mishap investigation board. The board consists of four other voting member ...Continue Reading

March 03, 2009 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Jonas Dino/Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5612 jonas.dino@nasa.gov Jennifer Greeson Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif. 202-354-2968 jegreeso@cisco.com RELEASE: 09-046 NASA, CISCO PARTNERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MONITORING PLATFORM WASHINGTON -- NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring ...Continue Reading

March 03, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 202-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-034 NASA ANNOUNCES CHANGE FOR RETURN OF STATION CREW MEMBERS HOUSTON -- The International Space Station Program has announced a change in how two future crew members will return home. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk will swap seats on the space shuttle and ...Continue Reading

March 2, 2009 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 june.e.malone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-045 NASA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS PARACHUTE FOR ARES ROCKET HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The test took place Feb. 28 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground ne ...Continue Reading

March 2, 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: 09-044 NASA FLYING WING MODEL SOARS INTO NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM WASHINGTON -- A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum. The 12-foot wing span blended wing body, or BWB, model, used during wind tunnel f ...Continue Reading