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NASA TV News Conference To Discuss Planck Cosmology Findings

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NASA TV News Conference To Discuss Planck Cosmology Findings

WASHINGTON — NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website.

Planck launched into space in 2009 and has been scanning the skies ever since, mapping cosmic microwave background, or the afterglow, of the big bang that created our universe more than 13 billion years ago.

The briefing participants are:
— Paul Hertz, director of astrophysics, NASA, Washington
— Charles Lawrence, U.S. Planck project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
— Martin White, U.S. Planck scientist, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
— Krzysztof Gorski, U.S. Planck scientist, JPL
— Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

News media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must send an email providing name, media affiliation and telephone number to j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by 10 a.m. March 21. News media representatives and the public may send questions via Twitter to #AskNASA.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream/tv/nasajpl2

For more information about Planck, visit

http://www.nasa.gov/planck

 

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http://www.esa.int/planck

 

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NASA TV Briefing Discusses Curiosity Rover Analysis of Mars Rock

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NASA TV Briefing Discusses Curiosity Rover Analysis of Mars Rock

WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover’s analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website.

The participants will be:
— Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
— John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
— David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity’s Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
— Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars investigation, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by noon, March 12.

During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity’s 10 science instruments to assess whether the Gale Crater area on Mars ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:

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The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

More information about Curiosity is online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

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NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

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NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.

The half-hour broadcast from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.

At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 2:25 p.m. EST (11:25 a.m. PST/ 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid’s flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about noon EST (9 a.m. PST) and continuing through the afternoon at the following website:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

The NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, manages and funds the search, study, and monitoring of NEOs, or asteroids and comets, whose orbits periodically bring them close to the Earth. NASA’s study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system. The objects also are a repository of natural resources and could become waystations for future exploration. In collaboration with other external organizations, one of the program’s key goals is to search and hopefully mitigate potential NEO impacts on Earth. JPL conducts the NEO program’s technical and scientific activities.

For more information, including graphics and animations showing the flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:

www.nasa.gov/asteroidflyby

For more information about asteroids and near-Earth objects, visit:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch

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NASA: Asteroid flyby can be watched by computer

The long-awaited flyby of the massive asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday morning won’t be visible overhead in California, due to bright sunlight.

But commentary, real-time imagery and a telescopic view of the asteroid can all be seen by computer.

A half-hour commentary broadcast from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will be available online starting at 11 a.m. PST via NASA TV and streamed live online at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

Near real-time imagery of the asteroid’s flyby before and after its closest approach — made available to NASA by astronomers in the dark skies of Australia

and Europe, weather permitting — will be streamed beginning about 9 a.m. PST and continuing through the afternoon at this website: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 6 p.m. PST. To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc.

It will be the nearest recorded brush with a such a large space rock, which is estimated to be the size of a 15-story office building.

Satellite operators are monitoring the asteroid

but it is expected to miss the belt of satellites that are 23,000 miles up.

There is no chance of impact with Earth — at its closest, it will pass about 17,000 miles above us.

Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.

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Astronaut Backs Notre Dame in BCS Championship




NASA astronaut Kevin Ford supports the University of Notre Dame for BCS Champsionship 2013.

NASA astronaut Kevin Ford smiles while wearing his Notre Dame “Play Like a Champion Today” shirt on Dec. 26 to support the college’s BCS Championship Game against Alabama on Jan. 7, 2013. Ford is the commander of Expedition 34 aboard the International Space Station.
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When it comes to college football, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford is Irish through and through. Ford will be rooting for Notre Dame all the way from space during the BCS Championship game against Alabama tonight (Jan. 7).

Ford is currently living on the International Space Station, where he commands a six-man team, but tonight his heart will be with Notre Dame —his alma mater —when the team faces off with Alabama’s Crimson Tide in Miami.

“The team’s played great,” Ford said in a recent interview with Notre Dame officials on NASA TV. “Obviously the defense is very special, and the offense is just really clicking. I’m looking forward to a great game on the seventh of January.”

Ford has been living on the space station since October, when he blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. He took charge of the space station’s Expedition 34 crew a month later and will return to Earth in March. He is a native of Montpelier, Ind., and is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

Ford said he tried to keep up with Notre Dame’s games while on his current spaceflight, but he admitted the timing of the games is a challenge. The space station runs on Greenwich Mean Time, so many of the football games last well into the wee hours of the morning for Ford. [Tour the Space Station (Video)]

For tonight’s championship game, though, Ford said he asked Mission Control for some post-game recovery time. That way, he can watch most of the game live during the overnight hours.

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Astronauts can watch live television via a satellite communications system, Ford said.

“It’s normally used for science data, but on weekends, if it’s free, they’ll let us get a little bit of TV,” Ford added. “I’ve been able to follow the team and see a lot of the games.”

The astronaut even has his favorite Notre Dame garb on the space station to support the team. During his interview, he pulled off his Expedition 34 sweatshirt to reveal a “Play Like a Champion Today” t-shirt just for the team. He also has a sign that reads “Explore Like a Champion Today” mounted over one of the space station’s hatches, much like the iconic sign Notre Dame players touch on the way to the field at their home stadium.

But before Ford ever signed up for NASA’s astronaut corps, he was a student at Notre Dame. He studied aerospace engineering and graduated with a bachelors of science degree in 1982. He even learned Russian along the way, something that happened to come in useful recently.

“I took a Russian class at Notre Dame,” Ford said. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.”

While Ford is a die-hard Notre Dame fan, he did have some fun with flight controllers at the NASA’s space station Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He played the University of Alabama’s fight song in the “spirit of good sportsmanship” on Sunday, agency officials said. 

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NASA GRAIL Twins Complete Their Moon Impact

An artist’s depiction of the twin spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) that comprise NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT
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Update: Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have received confirmation that the twin GRAIL spacecraft have, as planned, completed their impact into the moon.

Update: The twin spacecraft of NASA’s GRAIL mission have completed their final rocket burns. Their pre-planned lunar impact is expected at about 2:28 p.m. PST (5:28 EST).

Ebb and Flow — the two twin spacecraft of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission — have begun their final rocket burns. They are scheduled to impact the moon at around 2:28 p.m. PST (5:28 EST).

NASA is providing live commentary of the pre-planned lunar surface impacts by GRAIL beginning at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) Monday, Dec. 17. The event will be broadcast on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website. For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv . The coverage will also be streamed live on Ustream at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

The two probes will hit a mountain near the lunar north pole, bringing their successful prime and extended science missions to an end. The two probes are being sent purposely into the moon because they no longer have enough altitude or fuel to continue science operations. 



Commentary will originate from the GRAIL control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Coverage will last about 35 minutes and include live interviews with GRAIL team members.

GRAIL’s final resting place on the moon will be in shadow at the time of impact, so no video documentation of the impacts is expected. GRAIL data are allowing scientists to learn about the moon’s internal structure and composition in unprecedented detail.
Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #GRAIL.

For the mission’s press kit and other information about GRAIL, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/grail . You can follow JPL News on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl , and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/nasajpl .

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Watch NASA crash two probes into the moon Monday

UPDATE: A pair of NASA spacecraft tumbled out of orbit around the moon and crashed back-to-back into the surface on Monday, ending a mission that peered into the lunar interior. Read more

Two NASA moon probes are slated to slam into the rim of a lunar crater today, and the space agency will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic action.

The twin Grail spacecraft, known as Ebb and Flow, will crash intentionally near the moon’s north pole at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 GMT) today, bringing their gravity-mapping mission to a spectacular close. The event will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed live on the agency’s website, beginning at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT).

The coverage should last about 35 minutes and will include interviews with Grail team members. The impact site will be in shadow at the time of the crash, so no video of Ebb and Flow’s violent demise is expected, NASA officials said.

You can follow along at NASA TV’s website, or watch the feed here at SPACE.com.

The $496 million Grail mission launched in September 2011 and arrived in lunar orbit about three months later. Ever since, Ebb and Flow have been zipping around the moon in tandem, detecting the tiny changes in the distance between them caused by lunar mountains, craters and subsurface mass concentrations that affect gravity.

Scientists have used these measurements to create the most detailed gravity map ever constructed for a celestial body. The new map reveals that the lunar crust is almost completely pulverized, suggesting the moon — and the other rocky bodies in the inner solar system — were battered by long-ago impacts far more violently than previously thought.

Ebb and Flow are now almost out of fuel. They would have hit the lunar surface eventually anyway, so the mission team wants to bring them down in a controlled fashion. They’re slated to hit a crater rim at a latitude of 75.62 degrees north and a longitude of 26.63 degrees east — far from any sites of historical importance on the lunar surface.

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Watch NASA crash two probes into the moon today

Two NASA moon probes are slated to slam into the rim of a lunar crater today, and the space agency will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic action.

The twin Grail spacecraft, known as Ebb and Flow, will crash intentionally near the moon’s north pole at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 GMT) today, bringing their gravity-mapping mission to a spectacular close. The event will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed live on the agency’s website, beginning at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT).

The coverage should last about 35 minutes and will include interviews with Grail team members. The impact site will be in shadow at the time of the crash, so no video of Ebb and Flow’s violent demise is expected, NASA officials said.

You can follow along at NASA TV’s website, or watch the feed here at SPACE.com.

The $496 million Grail mission launched in September 2011 and arrived in lunar orbit about three months later. Ever since, Ebb and Flow have been zipping around the moon in tandem, detecting the tiny changes in the distance between them caused by lunar mountains, craters and subsurface mass concentrations that affect gravity.

Scientists have used these measurements to create the most detailed gravity map ever constructed for a celestial body. The new map reveals that the lunar crust is almost completely pulverized, suggesting the moon — and the other rocky bodies in the inner solar system — were battered by long-ago impacts far more violently than previously thought.

Ebb and Flow are now almost out of fuel. They would have hit the lunar surface eventually anyway, so the mission team wants to bring them down in a controlled fashion. They’re slated to hit a crater rim at a latitude of 75.62 degrees north and a longitude of 26.63 degrees east — far from any sites of historical importance on the lunar surface.

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NASA TV Coverage Set For Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA Television will provide live coverage of next week’s launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station.

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Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency are scheduled to launch to the space station in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft at 6:12 a.m. CST (6:12 p.m. Baikonur time) Wednesday, Dec. 19, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV launch coverage will begin at 5 a.m. and include video of that day’s activities leading to the crew boarding its spacecraft.

The trio will dock the Soyuz spacecraft to the station’s Rassvet module at 8:10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21. NASA TV coverage of docking begins at 7:30 a.m. About three hours later, hatches will open between the Soyuz and the station. Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield will be greeted by Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin of Roscosmos, who have been living and working on the orbiting laboratory since late October. NASA TV’s hatch opening coverage begins at 10:15 a.m.

Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield will remain aboard the station until May 2013. Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin will return to Earth March 15, leaving Hadfield as the first Canadian commander of the space station.

The full schedule of the Soyuz prelaunch, launch and docking coverage includes (all times Central):

Friday, Dec. 14 1 p.m. — Video file of Expedition 34/35 crew activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Monday, Dec. 17 11 a.m. — Video file of Expedition 34/35 spacecraft encapsulation, rocket mating and rollout in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Tuesday, Dec. 18 11 a.m. — Video file of Expedition 34/35 Russian State Commission meeting and final pre-launch crew news conference in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Wednesday, Dec. 19 5 a.m. — Expedition 34/35 launch coverage (launch at 6:12 a.m.; includes video of the crew’s pre-launch activities at 5:15 a.m.) 9 a.m. — Video file of Expedition 34/35 pre-launch, launch and post-launch interviews

Friday Dec. 21 7:30 a.m. — Expedition 34/35 docking coverage (docking at 8:10 a.m.) followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia 10:15 a.m. — Expedition 34/35 hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch opening at 10:45 a.m.) 1 p.m. — Video file of Expedition 34/35 docking, hatch opening and welcoming

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #ISS. To learn more about all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect 

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NASA’s Recently Returned Station Commander Williams Available For Interviews

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who returned to Earth Sunday after four months on the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6-7 a.m. CST Friday, Nov. 30.

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To participate in the interviews, reporters must contact Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 no later than 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29. Video highlights of Williams’ mission will air at 5:30 a.m. before the start of the interviews.

Williams, who was born in Euclid, Ohio, but considers Needham, Mass., her hometown, launched to the orbiting laboratory on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft July 15. She spent 125 days aboard the station as an Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander.

Williams’ stint aboard the space station included three spacewalks, during which she and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide repaired several critical elements of the complex.

Williams now has spent 322 days in space on two missions. She ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. list for cumulative time in space and second on the all-time list for women. She previously spent 195 days in space as a flight engineer during Expedition 14/15. With seven spacewalks totaling 50 hours, 40 minutes, Williams holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut.

Williams received a bachelor’s degree in physical science from the United States Naval Academy and a master’s degree in engineering management from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla. She was selected as an astronaut in 1998.

NASA TV’s Media Channel #103 will carry the b-roll and be used to conduct the interviews. It is an MPEG-4 digital C-band signal, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite AMC-18C, transponder 3C, at 105 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3760 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80 MHz, symbol rate of 28.0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC. A digital video broadcast (DVB) compliant integrated receiver decoder (IRD) is needed for reception. The compression format is MPEG-4, Video PID = 0×1031 hex / 4145 decimal, AC-3 Audio PID = 0×1035 hex /4149 decimal, MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 0×1034 hex /4148 decimal.

For NASA TV streaming video, and additional downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Williams’ biography is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/ObgQJC

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #ISS. To learn more about all the ways to Connect and Collaborate with NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

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