May 8th 2006 PDT
05.08.06 Jessica Rye Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 RELEASE: 32-06 STEPHEN J. ALTEMUS TO LEAD NEW KSC ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy announced today the center is standing up a new organization called the Engineering Directorate with Stephen J. Altemus as its director. The new 800-person Engineering Directorate is being created to centralize the center's engineering activities, processes and personnel into one organization that will have an independent repo ...Continue Reading
May 8th 2006 PDT
05.08.06 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 RELEASE: 31-06 TRACY ANANIA NAMED DIRECTOR OF KSC HUMAN RESOURCES Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy announced today Tracy Anania has been appointed the center's director of Human Resources. In this position, Anania will oversee the center's civil service staffing requirements, manage employee classifications and compensation, and build training and leadership development programs. Anania currently serves as the director of Human Resour ...Continue Reading
May 8th 2006 PDT
05.05.06 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-3749 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-082 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MODULE TO ARRIVE IN FLORIDA THIS MONTH Columbus is embarking on a new journey to the United States. The European Space Agency's Columbus module, a laboratory facility destined for the International Space Station, is set to arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., from Bremen, Germany, on May 30. NASA will welcome Columbus during a cere ...Continue Reading
May 5th 2006 PDT
05.05.06 Joe Pally Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-7239 Jessica Rye Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 STATUS REPORT: S-050506 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT NASA's space shuttle fleet is housed and processed at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1.1) - Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103) Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 Launch Date: Launch Processing Window July 1-19, 2006 Launch Pad: 39B Cre ...Continue Reading
May 3rd 2006 PDT
05.03.06 George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 Rachel Weintraub Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. (301) 286-0918 RELEASE: 30-06 STEREO ARRIVES IN FLORIDA TO BEGIN LAUNCH PREPARATIONS NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrived today at Astrotech, a payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to begin preparations and final testing for launch. Liftoff will occur aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Launch Complex 17 on Cape Canaveral Air Forc ...Continue Reading
May 1st 2006 PDT
05.01.06 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-3749 Jessica Rye Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-080 SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO MOVE TO VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING NASA invites news media to the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for an important milestone for the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery mission, designated STS-121. On Friday, May 12, Discovery is scheduled to be moved out of its hangar. The move from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Buildi ...Continue Reading
May 1st 2006 PDT
05.01.06 Mike Rein Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 RELEASE: 29-06 NASA KSC DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT James W. Kennedy, the eighth director in the history of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, today announced his intention to retire in January 2007 after 35 years of government service. Kennedy spent 31 of those years with NASA and four with the U.S. Air Force. Kennedy's successor will be announced at a later date. "Serving as the director of the historic Kennedy Space Center where the U.S. space p ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2006 PDT
04.28.06 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-7239 Jessica Rye Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 STATUS REPORT: S-042806 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT NASA's space shuttle fleet is housed and processed at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1.1) - Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103) Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 Launch Date: Launch Processing Window July 1-19, 2006 Launch Pad: ...Continue Reading
April 27th 2006 PDT
04.27.06 Erica Hupp/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1237/0668 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (805) 605-3051 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (818) 354-0474 Chris Rink (CALIPSO) Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. (757) 864-6786 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-077 NASA'S CLOUDSAT AND CALIPSO LAUNCH RESCHEDULED NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., is scheduled for 6:02 a.m. EDT Friday, April 28. Launch commentary on NASA TV begins at 4 a.m. ED ...Continue Reading
April 26th 2006 PDT
04.26.06 Erica Hupp/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1237/0668 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 Alan Buis (CloudSat) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (818) 354-0474 Chris Rink (CALIPSO) Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. (757) 864-6786 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-076 WEATHER AGAIN SCRUBS NASA'S CLOUDSAT AND CALIPSO LAUNCH The launch of NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) satellites from Vandenberg Air ...Continue Reading
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