Jan 25 2013

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-020 - NASA INVITES MEDIA TO VIEW ONGOING ORION AND TESTING WORK AT KENNEDY JAN. 30 --CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media are invited to a photo and interview opportunity at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 30, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Journalists will visit Kennedy's Swamp Works research laboratories and the facility where NASA's Orion spacecraft is being prepared for its first launch. Kennedy Director Bob Cabana will provide a status update on the center’s transformation to a multiuse government and commercial space launch and recovery complex. Media must be at Kennedy's press site by 9:30 a.m. for transportation to the sites. Journalists will be able to see and photograph the research and technology work going on in the laboratories and the progress being made on the Orion crew module at Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building. NASA officials will be available for interviews at both locations.

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-022 - NASA SETS MEDIA EVENTS FOR LANDSAT MISSION LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA --WASHINGTON -- The launch of NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 11, from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff aboard an Atlas V rocket is targeted to occur at the opening of a 48-minute launch window at 1:02 p.m. EST (10:02 a.m. PST). LDCM is a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat series, which began in 1972 and will add to the longest continuous data record of Earth's surface as viewed from space. LDCM will extend global land observations that are critical in many areas, such as energy and water management, forest monitoring, human and environmental health, urban planning, disaster recovery and agriculture. The LDCM News Center at NASA's Vandenberg Resident Office opens Feb. 6. Prelaunch and launch activities will take place Feb. 8-11.