Author: N.A.S.A.

Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 6:21 a.m. EDT on April 5 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…unch_Date.html

News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…ch_Events.html

NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has awarded a contract to A2 Research, JV, of Huntsville, Ala., to provide technical laboratory services at the center.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…_services.html

NASA selected four high school teams as finalists in the Balloonsat High Altitude Flight competition. Their experiments will be the payload aboard a NASA weather balloon that will launch May 25-27.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…alloonsat.html

NASA has contracted with ERC Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for space technology research and development activities at the agency’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…014-STRaD.html

NASA Flight Directors Richard Jones and Ron Spencer are available for live satellite interviews beginning March 30 at 6 a.m. CDT.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…_advisory.html

NASA managers will hold a news conference on Friday, March 26, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…S-131_FRR.html

NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth’s polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…ge_Arctic.html

Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…z_landing.html

NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…Earth_Day.html

NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…_contract.html

NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…FAST_2010.html

NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…a_channel.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…_Coverage.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…statement.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…SC_safety.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…SCAN_game.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…nch_water.html

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.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…_briefing.html

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…uggy_Race.html