Dec 1 2011
From The Space Library
NASA Awards Stennis Space Center Protective Service Contract
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected ISS Action, Inc. of Jamaica, N.Y., to provide protective services at the agency's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss.
The firm, fixed price contract consists of a base period of eight months and four one-year option periods; with a total value of $25.9 million.
ISS Action, Inc. will provide security services at Stennis including physical security operations, personnel security, access control, badging, 911 dispatch center, access monitoring, traffic control and locksmith services.
Asteroids, Mars and Drought Among NASA News Highlights at American Geophysical Union Meeting
WASHINGTON -- NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The meeting takes place Dec. 5-9 at the Moscone Convention Center, 747 Howard St., in San Francisco. Media registration for the event is open.
Media briefings during the meeting will feature topics such as new results about the asteroid Vesta, the future risk of major droughts, new discoveries at the edge of our solar system, and the 2011 Japanese tsunami. In addition, NASA scientists and their colleagues who use NASA research capabilities will present noteworthy findings during scientific sessions that are open to registered journalists.
NASA Announcing Kepler Discoveries at Science Conference
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will host a news briefing at 8 a.m. PST, Monday, Dec. 5, to announce new discoveries by the Kepler mission. The briefing, during the Kepler Science Conference, will be in building 152 at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where liquid water can exist on the surface of an orbiting planet. Kepler is detecting planets and possible candidates with a wide range of sizes and orbital distances to help scientists better understand our place in the galaxy.
The briefing will provide an update on the statistical findings since Kepler's Feb. 1, 2011, science data release and introduce a new confirmed planetary discovery. The briefing participants are:
-- Pete Worden, center director, Ames Research Center -- Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at Ames -- Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at Ames -- Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
