Oct. 7, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-252 NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft at 6:10 p.m. CDT, Thursday, (5:10 a.m. Friday local time) from the Bai ...Continue Reading

Oct. 7, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Linda Billings George Washington University, Washington 703-635-9799 libillin@gwu.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-140 NASA SYMPOSIUM MARKS 50-YEAR-SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF LIFE IN UNIVERSE WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to attend a NASA symposium on Thursday, Oct. 14, from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. EDT, where world-renowned scientists will address ...Continue Reading

Oct. 07, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu Michael Shull University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 303-492-7827 michael.shull@colorado.edu RELEASE: 10-243 HUBBLE ASTRONOMERS UNCOVER AN OVERHEATED EARLY UNIVERSE WASHINGTON -- During a period of universal warming 11 billion years ago, quasars -- the brilliant core of active galaxies -- produced fierce radiation blasts ...Continue Reading

Oct. 07, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-248 NASA SPONSORS REDUCED GRAVITY TECHNOLOGY TEST FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA recently sponsored a series of flights from Ellington Field in Houston to test technologies in reduced-gravity conditions. The flights marked the third year of operations for NASA's Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology program, called FAST. The 16 research teams that participated were comprised of sm ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HEAVY RAINS IN JAMAICA Heavy rains caused flash floods and landslides in Jamaica in late September and early October 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46297&src=nha *** MPA(TRMM) image from Sep 28, 2010 (Posted on Oct 06, 2010 12:07 PM) FLOODING IN PAKISTAN Widespread and heavy monsoon rains in July and ...Continue Reading

Oct. 06, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-240 NASA PARTNERSHIP SENDS EARTH SCIENCE DATA TO AFRICA WASHINGTON -- A unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe has sent more than 30 terabytes of free Earth science satellite data to South African researchers to support sustainable development and environmental applications in Africa. ...Continue Reading

Oct. 06, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-244 NASA'S WMAP PROJECT COMPLETES SATELLITE OPERATIONS MISSION OBSERVED UNIVERSE'S OLDEST LIGHT WASHINGTON -- After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, t ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-249 WISE CAPTURES KEY IMAGE OF COMET MISSION'S DESTINATION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. The WISE observation will help the EPOXI team put together a large-scale picture of the comet ...Continue Reading

Oct. 05, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-247 NASA'S LCROSS WINS 2010 POPULAR MECHANICS BREAKTHROUGH AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission has won Popular Mechanics magazine's 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The sixth annual Breakthrough Awards recognize in ...Continue Reading

An out-of-plane maneuver is scheduled for MetOp-A between 5 October 2010 0700 UTC and 6 October 2010 1100 UTC. Please note that all MetOp-A instrument data from 1150 UTC on 5 October 2010 until 0710 on 6 October 2010 will be severely degraded with respect to geolocation. This is also expected to impact the timeliness and continuity of the near-real-time dissemination of both ASCAT and AVHRR datasets at throughout the orbit maneuver. Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback on the ASCAT datasets, pl ...Continue Reading