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July 2010 Press Releases

NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home (Jul. 30, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet -- trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. The rover team anticipated Spirit would go into a low-power "hibernation" mode since the rover was not able to get to a favorable slope for its fourth Martian winter, which runs from ...click for complete press release

NASA Awards Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract (Jul. 30, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a sole-source interim contract for electrical systems engineering services to MEI Technologies in Houston. This interim contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that will ensure program continuity and critical mission support. The contract will cover both existing and new requirements. It has a maximum ordering va...click for complete press release

NASA Awards Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, Space Vehicle Mockup Facility Support Contract (Jul. 30, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a contract to Raytheon Technical Services Co. of Webster, Texas, to operate, maintain and provide sustaining engineering at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and Space Vehicle Mockup Facility in Houston. The contract has a maximum value of $119.9 million. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL, includes a large pool where astronauts us...click for complete press release

NASA's First Robotic Crew Member To Tweet From Space Station, Available For Interviews (Jul. 30, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA's Robonaut 2 has no voice but is ready to tell you its story -- in 140 characters or less. The prototype robot will travel to space this fall to give NASA a deeper understanding of human-robotic interaction. Called R2, the robot has started sending updates about its upcoming mission from its new Twitter account, @AstroRobonaut. With the help of its supporting team, R2 w...click for complete press release

NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk (Jul. 28, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA managers will discuss an upcoming spacewalk at the International Space Station during a news briefing at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are scheduled to perform a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Aug. 5. The two NASA astronauts will outfit the Russian Zarya module for future robotics work and prepare the station f...click for complete press release

NASA Selects Sounding Rockets Operations Contractor (Jul. 28, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp.'s, Technical Services Division in Greenbelt, Md., for the agency's Sounding Rockets Operations contract. The total value of this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cost-plus incentive fee contract is $310 million. The period of performance is five years. Orbital Sciences will coordinate and implement NASA's overall Sounding Rockets...click for complete press release

NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert Rats Exploration Site (Jul. 27, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, known as Desert RATS. "Desert RATS is an annual test where NASA takes equipment and crews into the field to simulate future planetary exploration missions," said Joe Kosmo, Desert RATS manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center...click for complete press release

NASA Simulates Space Exploration At Remote Arctic Crater Site (Jul. 26, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010. Scientists are using the arid, rocky environment of the Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Canada to simulate conditions that might be encountered by explorers on other planetary bod...click for complete press release

NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs In Space For First Time (Jul. 23, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a laboratory 25 years ago. They are named for their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, which have interlocking circles on the surface of a par...click for complete press release

NASA Seeks Undergrads To Defy Gravity For Science And Engineering (Jul. 23, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Proposals are due by Oct. 27. The program, managed by the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, provides aspiring explorers a chance to propose, design and fabricate a reduced gravity experiment. Selected teams w...click for complete press release

NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever (Jul. 23, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet. The map was constructed using nearly 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS, a multi-band infrared camera on Ody...click for complete press release

NASA Astronaut Sends First Signed Message From Orbit (Jul. 23, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- The number of languages used on the International Space Station has recently increased. In addition to those spoken in the 15 countries that have had representatives aboard the space station, American Sign Language, or ASL, is now included. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson has sent a message in ASL from the station to the deaf community. In the video, Caldwell Dyson answ...click for complete press release

NASA's Hubble Shows Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way (Jul. 22, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star, a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our sun. The star may have been created in a cosmic misstep. A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it wandered too close to the galaxy's giant black hole. The black hole captured ...click for complete press release

Iss Expedition 24 Crew To Talk With Middle School Students In Georgia (Jul. 20, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Students from the Conyers Middle School in Conyers, Ga., are expecting a very long-distance phone call Wednesday from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. About 400 sixth- through eighth-grade students and their teachers will participate in a live downlink, which is scheduled to take place at 12:20 p.m. EDT. Selected students will ask questions of astronau...click for complete press release

NASA Astronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland -- Available For Interviews In Washington (Jul. 20, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA Headquarters in Washington will welcome space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 astronauts and International Space Station Expedition 22 and 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer for a visit Monday, July 26, through Thursday, July 29. Creamer considers Upper Marlboro, Md., his hometown. He graduated from Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Md., and Loyola College in Columbia...click for complete press release

NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Technology To Play Key Role In New Open Source Initiative (Jul. 19, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability. Cloud computing is a way to deliver computing resources, s...click for complete press release

Teachers Get Hands-on Experience Through New NASA Internship (Jul. 16, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Select teachers will spend part of their summer learning about virtual technology in an effort to get their students excited about science, technology, engineering and math. A pilot summer internship program, called Simulation-Based Aerospace Engineering Teacher Professional Development, will give 16 U.S. middle and high school teachers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on ...click for complete press release

NASA's Wise Mission Ready To Complete Extensive Sky Survey (Jul. 16, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17. The mission has generated more than one million images so far, of everything from asteroids to distant galaxies "Like a globe-trotting shutterbug, WISE has completed a world tour with 1.3 million slides covering the whole sky," said Edward Wright, the principal ...click for complete press release

NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-like Tail (Jul. 15, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space. Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the ...click for complete press release

NASA Television Debuts Full-time High Definition Channel (Jul. 15, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- On Monday, July 19, NASA Television will launch a full-time High Definition (HD) channel that media, cable and satellite service providers can access for news content and coverage of agency missions and programs. The channel will deliver HD video that only NASA can provide, such as live launch coverage of space shuttles and other spacecraft. The "ISS Update," a daily progra...click for complete press release

Messenger Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury (Jul. 15, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution. Launched in August 2004, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging spacecraft, known as MESSENGER, conducted a third and final flyby of Mercury in September 2009. The probe completed a critical maneuver using the plan...click for complete press release

NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk (Jul. 14, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA officials will discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts during a news briefing at 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 21. The briefing will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Questions will be taken from journalists at participating NASA locations. T...click for complete press release

NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk (Jul. 14, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA officials will discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts during a news briefing at 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 21. The briefing will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Questions will be taken from journalists at participating NASA locations. T...click for complete press release

NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract (Jul. 14, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Serving as a contracting agent for the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., of Arlington, Va., to receive a contract for Rapid Response Space Works (RRSW). This is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, cost-plus fixed-fee single award contract that begins Wednesday. The contra...click for complete press release

NASA Supporting Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Recovery (Jul. 14, 2010)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The first group of hatchlings from endangered sea turtle eggs brought from beaches along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast was released into the Atlantic Ocean off Kennedy's central Florida coast on July 11. ...click for complete press release

NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges (Jul. 13, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding. "NASA sponsors prize competitions because the agency believes student teams, private companies of all sizes and citizen-inventors can pr...click for complete press release

NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station (Jul. 13, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA has selected nine experiments, designed by students at seven schools, for astronauts to perform on the International Space Station this summer. NASA selected the proposals from among 132 received for the new Kids in Micro-g! Program. This is the pilot year for the program, a student experiment design challenge geared toward grades five through eight. Its purpose is to giv...click for complete press release

NASA And Microsoft Provide Mars 3-d Close Encounter (Jul. 12, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet. Microsoft's online virtual telescope explores the universe using images NASA spacecraft return from other worlds. Teams at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and Microsoft in Redm...click for complete press release

NASA Names Lugo As Director Of Glenn Research Center (Jul. 09, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Ramon "Ray" Lugo III as director of the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, effective July 18. Lugo has been Glenn's acting director since March. As Glenn's director, Lugo is responsible for planning, organizing and leading the activities needed to accomplish the missions assigned to the center. Glenn has research, tech...click for complete press release

First NASA Astronaut To Send Live Tweet From Space Hosts Tweetup (Jul. 09, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut T.J. Creamer at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 29. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington. While in space, Creamer set up the International Space Station's live Internet connection. He posted updates about the mission to his Twitter...click for complete press release

NASA, Georgetown Invite Public To Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent Space Shuttle Mission (Jul. 08, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business invite the public to a discussion with the most recent space shuttle crew to fly in space at 6:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, July 26. The McDonough School of Business will host the six astronauts in the Lohrfink Auditorium of the Rafik B. Hariri Building. The crew members will give a video presentation about their mission...click for complete press release

NASA Ceremony Honors Shuttle External Tank Workforce (Jul. 08, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company paid tribute to the workforce who built the external tanks for the space shuttle fleet on Thursday at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. ET-138, the last newly manufactured tank to roll out of the assembly building, served as a backdrop for speakers praising the employees. "This is a bittersweet moment for everyon...click for complete press release

NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions (Jul. 08, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA and its international partners, the Russia Federal Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have assigned four new International Space Station crews. The crews include NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Sunita Williams and Kevin Ford. Acaba was born in Inglewood, Calif., and raised in Anaheim, Calif. Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, but considers Needha...click for complete press release

NASA Takes Gamers On A Lunar Adventure With New Online Video Game (Jul. 06, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA has given gamers a taste of lunar adventure with release of Moonbase Alpha, an exciting new, free online video game. The game has single and multiplayer options that allow participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Players must work to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a meteor strike cripples a so...click for complete press release

NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Dates For Final Two Flights (Jul. 01, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA is targeting approximately 4:33 p.m. EDT on Nov. 1 for the launch of space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission and 4:19 p.m. EST on Feb. 26, 2011, for the liftoff of shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The target dates were adjusted because critical payload hardware for STS-133 will not be ready in time to support the previously ...click for complete press release

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