Columbia Investigation
On April 29, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe visited the RLV Hangar for a look at the Columbia debris accumulated during the past two months. Shuttle Test Director Steve Altemus (left) briefed him on the status of the identification by the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team. To date, nearly 82,000 items have been delivered to KSC for use in the ongoing mishap investigation. Of those, 74,747 had been identified as of April 28. The final truck delivery is scheduled for May 6.

Mars Exploration Rovers
MER-2 lander integration was completed April 24. Integration of the MER-2 entry vehicle (back shell, heat shield, lander and rover assembly) has been ongoing this week. On MER-1, rover installation on the base petal is complete and lander air bag installation was scheduled for this week.

OAO/ODIN IT Expo is coming!

The ODIN/KSC IT Expo "Spring Fling" will be held in the O&C Building's Mission Briefing Room from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Receive a 'goodie' if you wear flowered (Hawaiian-type) apparel. The EXPO will feature exhibits from our alliance partners including Dell, Hewlett Packard, GTSI, Apple and more. Experience hands-on access to the latest cutting edge technology! Visit the OAO/ODIN display for answers to all your questions on the ODIN Catalog, Outlook Web Access (OWA), and other ODIN Services. You can also visit the ODIN web site at http://kscodin/

NASA Science
Nowadays when humans travel to space, it's just a visit. Astronauts stay for weeks or months, then return to Earth. One day, though, whole generations of humans will live there. Some green peas onboard the International Space Station are leading the way by example. Read the full story at http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/24apr_greengenerations.htm

More EEAW winners - Remediation Group
What is the most common source of groundwater contamination at Kennedy Space Center? The Remediation Group of NASA's Environmental Program Branch would like to thank all those individuals who tried to answer the above question. The correct answer is Trichloroethene (TCE). The winners of the t-shirts were James Walders and Jeff Clark. TCE, a degreaser, was commonly used for precision cleaning of flight components in the 1960s and 1970s. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) was a popular incorrect answer. PCBs can be found in transformer oils and in some of the paints of launch support structures, such as the launch umbilical towers from the Apollo program.