SHUTTLE UPDATE KSC Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center continue pre-launch preparations on space shuttle Discovery. STS-119 is slated to begin no earlier than February 27 with an early morning liftoff. Commander Lee Archambaults crew will help finish construction of the International Space Stations structural backbone. Among the 119 crew is Mission Specialist John Phillips, wholl make his first return to the ISS since spending six months there in 2005 as a member of the Expedition 11 crew. John Phillips: "The station is way bigger. Its much more capable and to me itll be very exciting. Itll be like visiting a new place in a way and yet, at the same time, therell be some places that are very old and comforting to me, that Ive seen before." SGR J1550-5418 - GSFC Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a rare, spinning neutron star 30000 light-years away. SGR J1550-5418, as its officially catalogued, is actually the superdense, city-sized, remains of an exploded star called a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Over the past two years, astronomers have tracked it randomly emitting a series of X-ray and gamma-ray flares. This repeater, only the sixth known to exist, lies in the southern constellation, Norma; it should help scientists understand how energy is unleashed by a neutron stars intense magnetic field, or magnetar. MODIS TRACKS AUSTRALIA BUSHFIRES - GSFC NASAs, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...
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