Dec. 22, 2009 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov RELEASE: 65-09 NASA EXTENDS HOLIDAY 'GREENINGS' TO SANTA CLAUS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is putting a little more emphasis this year on the "green" part of the traditional red and green colors for Santa Claus' flyby of Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 24. Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility, with its 15,000 feet of runway nestled in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, should be a familiar sigh ...Continue Reading

Dec. 21, 2009 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 64-09 NASA SHOWCASES NEXT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION COMPONENT WASHINGTON - NASA's Kennedy Space Center will host a media event at 10 a.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 8, to highlight the next pressurized element to be launched to the International Space Station. The Tranquility node will fly aboard space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-130 mission, targeted for launch Feb. 7. During the event, reporters at the Spac ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2009 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov STATUS REPORT: ELV-121809 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401 Launch Pad: Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Launch Date: Feb. 3, 2010 Launch Window: 10:53 - 11:53 a.m. EST At the Astrotech payload processing facility, SDO solar arrays were inspected and cleaned. Last weekend, SDO was moved to a fixture for rotation f ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2009 Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-244 MOCK AND ROLL! NASA'S SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR MOVES TO LAUNCH PAD, LIFTOFF DRESS REHEARSAL SET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Journalists are invited to cover space shuttle Endeavour's move from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on Jan. 6 and observe the STS-130 crew's mock launch countdown activities from Jan. 19 to ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2009 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov John Leslie NOAA National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service 301-713-2087 john.leslie@noaa.gov RELEASE: 63-09 GOES-P SATELLITE ARRIVES AT KENNEDY FOR FINAL PRELAUNCH TESTING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES, developed by NASA for the National Oceanic an ...Continue Reading

Dec. 17, 2009 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov 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: M09-243 NASA ASTRONAUTS AND MANAGERS TO DISCUSS THE FIRST OF FIVE REMAINING SHUTTLE FLIGHTS HOUSTON - Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the final module of the U.S. portion of the International Space Station on the STS-130 mission, now tar ...Continue Reading

Dec. 14, 2009 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 805-605-3051 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.b.clavin@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-286 NASA'S WISE EYE ON THE UNIVERSE BEGINS ALL-SKY SURVEY MISSION VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrar ...Continue Reading

Dec. 11, 2009 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 805-605-3051 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.b.clavin@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-235 LAUNCH OF NASA'S WISE SPACECRAFT DELAYED UNTIL DEC. 14 WASHINGTON - The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been resched ...Continue Reading

Dec. 10, 2009 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-230 PRESS CREDENTIALS DEADLINES SET FOR NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON - NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the next space shuttle flight to the International Space Station. Shuttle Endeavour and six NASA astronauts are targeted to launch the STS-130 mission on Feb. 4 from NASA's Kennedy Space Cente ...Continue Reading

Dec. 7, 2009 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 805-605-3051 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.b.clavin@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-229 NASA'S WISE SKY SURVEYING SPACECRAFT READY FOR LAUNCH DEC. 11 WASHINGTON - The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, aboard a Delta II rocket is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, between 9:09 a.m. and 9:23 a.m. ...Continue Reading