Jan. 22, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov STATUS REPORT: ELV-012210 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401 Launch Pad: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Date: Feb. 9, 2010 Launch Window: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. EST At Launch Complex 41, integrated testing of the Atlas and Centaur stages of the Atlas V is continuing. On the morning of Jan. 20, the launch vehicle was transp ...Continue Reading

Jan. 20, 2010 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: M10-009 NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers will hold a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin after the Flight Readiness Review, a me ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Don Savage Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8982 donald.savage@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-008 NASA TO HOLD BRIEFING ON ADVANCED MISSION TO STUDY OUR SUN WASHINGTON - NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-007 NASA OFFERS TRANQUILITY NODE SATELLITE INTERVIEWS FROM LAUNCH PAD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Bill Dowdell, NASA Kennedy Space Center's deputy director for International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing, is available for satellite interviews from 6 to 9 a.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 22. Dowdell will conduct the inter ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Don Savage Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-8982 donald.savage@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M03-10 NASA OFFERS MEDIA ACCESS TO SDO SPACECRAFT JAN. 21 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 9, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 9 a.m. Thursday, ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov John Leslie NOAA, Silver Spring, Md. 301-713-2087 john.leslie@noaa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M02-10 NASA SETS GOES-P MEDIA OPPORTUNITY FOR JAN. 18 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P, or GOES-P, which will be launched into orbit in early March aboard a United Launch Alliance ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2010 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov RELEASE: 01-10 NASA INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE FOUND IN SHUTTLE HANGAR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has launched an extensive investigation after a small amount of cocaine was found in a restricted area of the processing hangar for shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. There are no indications the incident has impacted Discovery's readiness for its planned launch in March. "This is a rare and isolated ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2010 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: M10-4 NASA BRIEFINGS TO PREVIEW YEAR'S FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION RESCHEDULED HOUSTON - The news briefings to preview the year's first space shuttle mission have been rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 29, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ...Continue Reading

Jan. 8, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov STATUS REPORT: ELV-010810 CORRECTION: EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401 Launch Pad: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Date: Feb. 9, 2010 Launch Window: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. EST The mating of the Centaur stage to the Atlas was delayed several days before the holiday break by high wind causing more time to be consumed than th ...Continue Reading

Jan. 8, 2010 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov STATUS REPORT: ELV-010810 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401 Launch Pad: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Date: Feb. 9, 2010 Launch Window: 10:53 - 11:53 a.m. EST The Centaur upper stage, the second stage of the Atlas V rocket, was transported from the hangar at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC), to the Verti ...Continue Reading