The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TOXIC SLUDGE IN HUNGARY On October 4, 2010, an accident occurred at an alumina plant in southern Hungary. A corner wall of a retaining pond broke, releasing a torrent of toxic red sludge, which inundated local communities. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46360&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Oct 09, ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-150 REPORTERS INVITED TO 2010 NASA AUTHORIZATION ACT MEDIA TELECONFERENCE WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to participate in a teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Oct. 11, for reaction to Monday's anticipated signing of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 by President Barack Obama. The President is expected to sign the bill later this aftern ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 126 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN 2. NASA SELECTS COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS TO DESIGN ROVERS AND EXPLORE TECHNOLOGY CAREERS AT FIELD CENTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:51:53 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN Oct. 7, 2010 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 St ...Continue Reading

Oct. 08, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850/393-9011 jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov/david.c.agle@jpl.nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 10-254 NASA MISSION TO ASTEROID GETS HELP FROM HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will hel ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN NIGERIA Flooding in northern Nigeria destroyed crops, pastures, and homes in late September 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46322&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 08, 2010 (Posted on Oct 08, 2010 1:59 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ASHFALL FROM ...Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce that Dover Publications has reprinted Homer Newell’s /Beyond the Atmosphere//:  Early Years of Space Science/ book, originally published as NASA SP-4211 in 1980.  This significant book was out of print for a number of years.  The reprinted version features an attractive new cover and a new foreword by Paul Dickson, the series editor for Dover’s line of NASA History reprints.  The book is available from _http://doverpublications.ecomm-search.com/search?keywords=beyond%20th ...Continue Reading

Oct. 08, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Jenna C. Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jenna.c.maddix@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-251 NASA SELECTS COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS TO DESIGN ROVERS AND EXPLORE TECHNOLOGY CAREERS AT FIELD CENTERS WASHINGTON -- Community college students in a pilot program will take the first steps toward potential technology careers as they develop robotic explorers at NASA field centers. Ninety students from communit ...Continue Reading

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