Jan 13 2017
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-003 NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions
Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will provide the annually-scheduled release of data on global temperatures and discuss the most important climate trends of 2016 during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 18.
The teleconference panelists are:
- Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York
- Deke Arndt, chief of the global monitoring branch of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina
Media can participate in the teleconference by calling 888-323-5258 (toll-free in the United States and Canada) or 415-228-4837 (international) and use the passcode "climate."
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-005 NASA Invites Media to Pre-Super Bowl Event at Johnson Space Center
Media are invited to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of Super Bowl LI to get an insider’s look at the central hub of human space exploration and interview experts from across the agency and industry. The event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. CST on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
During this behind-the-scenes visit, media will see real-world examples of astronaut training, NASA’s Orion spacecraft, deep space technologies, and current work aboard the International Space Station. The event will include a live, interactive conversation with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, who are currently living and working 250 miles off the Earth on the space station.
To apply, media must email jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27.
NASA experts, including an astronaut, will be available for interviews about a variety of human spaceflight activities.
Reporters also will have the opportunity to:
- Meet an astronaut and the people who train and support them in space
- Tour special locations around Johnson, including the current International Space Station and historic Apollo Mission Control rooms, mockups of the space station, the Orion spacecraft and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a huge pool where astronauts train for spacewalks
- Hear from NASA experts as they explain the many analogies between America’s space program and football
- Learn about current scientific experiments underway aboard the space station and new experiments planned to launch in the future
- See how the space station is being used as a scientific laboratory to test groundbreaking new technologies that will help astronauts safely reach deep space destinations
NASA is on an ambitious Journey to Mars that includes sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s, and the agency’s robotic spacecraft are already leading the way. Orion and the agency’s Space Launch System rocket will launch together for the first time in 2018 and be capable of sending humans farther from Earth than humans have ever traveled. Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts are researching many science disciplines, conducting cutting-edge technology development and growing a commercial marketplace in space.
CONTRACT RELEASE C17-001 NASA Awards Engineering Contract for Earth, Space Science Missions
NASA has awarded a contract to KBRwyle Technology Solutions, LLC of Columbia, Maryland, for engineering services to support more than 20 NASA exploration missions.
The Ground Systems and Missions Operations-2 contract is cost-plus-award fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, with a total maximum ordering value of $442 million. The effective ordering period begins March 1 and runs through Feb. 28, 2022.
KBRwyle will support a wide range of mission operations, including concept studies, formulation development, implementation, operations, sustaining engineering and decommissioning. They also will support operations studies, systems engineering, design, implementation, integration and testing of ground systems and operations products, mission operations and sustaining engineering.
The contract supports various NASA missions managed by Space Science Mission Operations and Earth Science Mission Operations at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These include, but are not limited to, the Polar Operational Environmental Satellite, Magnetospheric Multi-Scale, Global Precipitation Measurement, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, James Webb Space Telescope, and Solar Dynamics Observatory.
