Author: N.A.S.A.

The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:17 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

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

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.

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

NASA’s International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation.

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

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.

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

Administrator Charles F. Bolden announced Monday leadership changes involving three of the agency’s field centers.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…4_Centers.html

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.

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

NASA is announcing a new initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations.

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

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NASA and the Italian Space Agency announced a new use for an existing Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) known as "Leonardo."

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…0-044_PMM.html

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.

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

NASA exercised two one-year extension options with a combined value of $130 million for a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas.

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

U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into space.

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

NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Miss., unveiled an initiative today to chart the future of the nation’s premier rocket engine testing facility.

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

Reporters are invited to a media day in April to observe the first environmental science mission of NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

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

NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has awarded a contract to ASRC Research and Technology Solutions LLC, or ARTS, a small business in Greenbelt, Md., to provide information and technical services at the center.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…09_SSC_IT.html

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has award AT&T of Vienna, Va., a contract to provide Mission Network Services for the agency.

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

Journalists are invited to cover the STS-131 space shuttle crew’s practice countdown and related training March 2-5 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…1_rollout.html

NASA is working with Univision Communications Inc. to develop a partnership in support of the Spanish-language media outlet’s initiative to improve high school graduation rates, prepare Hispanic students for college, and encourage them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, disciplines.

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

NASA has launched a new web page to help people better understand the causes and effects of Earth’s changing climate.

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

The newly restructured NASA Advisory Council recently concluded its second meeting, held Feb. 18-19, at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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