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March 2010 Press Releases

NASA Announces Systems Engineering Student Competition (Mar. 12, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition. Participants in the competition will submit a paper on an Exploration Systems mission topic. The deadline to register for the competition is April 16. Papers are due April 23...click for complete press release

NASA Awards Civil Design, Engineering And Services Contract (Mar. 12, 2010)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services. Services will be provided at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and overseas emergency space shuttle landing sites. The work...click for complete press release

Heads Of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement (Mar. 11, 2010)

TOKYO -- The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation. With the assembly of the ISS nearing completion and the capability to support a full-time crew of six established, they noted the outstanding opportunities now offered by the ISS for on-orbit rese...click for complete press release

NASA Tv Media Channel Provides Clean Feeds For News Organizations (Mar. 11, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media. The NASA Television media channel provides feeds of the agency's news, briefings and conferences, daily video files from around the agency, expendable vehicle launches, and the only available feeds of space shuttle mission coverage that contain only mission audio and natural sound. ...click for complete press release

NASA Tv Provides Coverage Of One Space Station Crew's Return To Earth And Another's Journey There (Mar. 11, 2010)

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April. Coverage begins with a broadcast of crew farewells and hatch closure aboard the station March 17, and continues with the arrival, docking and hatch opening of the new Expedition 23 crew members on April 4. E...click for complete press release

NASA Launches Interactive Simulation Of Satellite Communications (Mar. 09, 2010)

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In an effort to excite young people about space and NASA's missions, the agenc...click for complete press release

NASA Extends Johnson Safety And Mission Assurance Contract (Mar. 09, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center. The Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services contract helps ensure safety, reliability, maintainability and quality in the Internatio...click for complete press release

NASA Hosts First-ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16 -18 (Mar. 08, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums. The first forum, "Launch: Water," will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from March 16-18. "NASA is perfectly positioned to host a conversation with experts about potential ...click for complete press release

NASA And Noaa's Goes-p Satellite Successfully Launched (Mar. 05, 2010)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite joins four other similar spacecraft to improve weather forecasting and monitoring of ...click for complete press release

NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next Shuttle Flight (Mar. 05, 2010)

Next mission includes teacher turned astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger HOUSTON -- NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site. Reporters will be ab...click for complete press release

Robot Vs. Robot: Live In Washington And Across The Nation (Mar. 04, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington. The two-day event runs daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. It is free and open to the public. NASA Television will carry opening ceremon...click for complete press release

Student Teams Ready To Battle Lunar Terrain At NASA's 17th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race (Mar. 04, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their specially crafted lunar rovers through a challenging course of rugged, moon-like terrain at NASA's 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala., April 9-10. Some 1,088 high school, college and university students from 20 states and Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany, Bangladesh, Serbia, India and Romania...click for complete press release

NASA's International Space Station Program Wins Collier Trophy (Mar. 03, 2010)

WASHINGTON - NASA's International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation. The National Aeronautic Association in Washington bestows the award annually to recognize the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America. The association says it selected the station "for the design, development, and assembly of the...click for complete press release

NASA Announces Agency Center Management Changes (Mar. 01, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Administrator Charles F. Bolden announced Monday leadership changes involving three of the agency's field centers, including NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The changes are effective immediately. Arthur E. "Gene" Goldman, who has been the director o...click for complete press release

NASA Awards Alabama Contract Modification For Engineering Technicians And Trades Support Services (Mar. 01, 2010)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has signed a contract modification worth approximately $40 million with InfoPro Corporation of Huntsville, Ala., for the continuation of engineering technicians and trades support services to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. This includes up to $7.9 million for mission services and $32.2 million for additional support services that can be ordered under the ind...click for complete press release

NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits At Moon's North Pole; Additional Evidence Of Water Activity On Moon (Mar. 01, 2010)

WASHINGTON -- Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on i...click for complete press release

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