Dec 16 2010
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-113
NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA DAY FOR HURRICANE RESEARCH FLIGHTS
WASHINGTON -- NASA will host media in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 31, for a behind-the-scenes look at the agency's major airborne campaign studying Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico hurricanes. The campaign, called the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, starts next week. Scientists will spend six weeks flying NASA research aircraft in and around storms and the areas where they may be forming. Instruments onboard NASA's aircraft will collect data to help enhance understanding of how tropical storms form and become hurricanes. NASA's DC-8 aircraft, which will carry seven science instruments, is based in Fort Lauderdale. NASA's WB-57 aircraft, which will carry two instruments, is based in Houston. Media day events will feature a briefing with mission scientists and flight crews, followed by tours of the aircraft and interviews. The Florida event will be at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from 8 to 10 a.m. EDT. The Texas media day will be at the Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston from 1 to 3 p.m. CDT. The date of the media day is subject to change depending on the schedule of research flights. Reporters planning to attend must pre-register by Tuesday, Aug. 24. For the Ft. Lauderdale event, contact Rob Gutro at 301-286-4044 or robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov. For the Houston event, contact Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters at 281-483-5111 or nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-034
MEDIA DAY PLANNED FOR FIRST NASA GLOBAL HAWK SCIENCE CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON -- 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. The Global Hawk Pacific 2010 mission, or GloPac, will involve a series of long-duration flights by the autonomously operated aircraft. The flights will travel over the Pacific Ocean south to the equator, west past Hawaii, and north into the Arctic. Ten instruments on the aircraft will collect a wide range of atmospheric data. The media day is tentatively scheduled for April 13 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST. News media will have the opportunity to view the Global Hawk, tour the aircraft hangar and ground operations center, and talk with mission personnel. Presentations will be made by principal investigators Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., David Fahey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., and Global Hawk project manager Chris Naftel from Dryden. To obtain credentials, journalists must submit a request to Beth Hagenauer, Dryden public affairs, by phone at 661-276-7960/3449 or by e-mail to beth.hagenauer@nasa.gov. Requests for foreign nationals and U.S. citizens representing foreign-based media are due March 5. The deadline for U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens representing domestic media is March 31. All requests must include full name, date of birth, place of birth, media organization, the last six digits of social security number and driver's license number, including issuing state. In addition, foreign nationals must provide their citizenship, visa or passport number, country of issue and expiration date. Foreign nationals with permanent residency also must provide their alien registration number and expiration date.
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