Nov. 9, 2009 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022/272-9859 amy.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-262 NASA LIVE DIGITAL NETWORK BRINGS APOLLO 11 EXPERTS INTO CLASSROOMS WASHINGTON -- Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were met. Through a series of interactive educational ...Continue Reading

Nov. 9, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-261 NASA AND SPACEWARD FOUNDATION AWARD PRIZE MONEY FOR SUCCESSFUL WIRELESS POWER DEMONSTRATION WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a "space elevator." LaserMotive of Seattle was awarded the money after its performance in the Power Beami ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM IDA Late in the Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Ida soaked Central America in the first week of November 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41158&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 07, 2009 (Posted on Nov 09, 2009 1:54 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHaz ...Continue Reading

Nov. 9, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-214 NASA'S STUCK MARTIAN ROVER SPIRIT TOPIC OF MEDIA CALL NOV. 12 WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 12, to discuss attempts to free the Mars rover Spirit from sandy soil where the venerable robot has been stuck for the past six months. The participants a ...Continue Reading

In cooperation with the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s history office, the NASA History Division to pleased to announce the availability of a new Monograph in Aerospace history (#44).  Peter W. Merlin’s /Ikhana:  Unmanned Aircraft System Western States Fire Missions/ (NASA SP-2009-4544) is available in hard copy format from the NASA History Division or the NASA Dryden history office (_http://history.nasa.gov/series95.html#order_) and we anticipate posting a pdf version soon.    Stephen Garbe ...Continue Reading

Nov. 6, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-260 NASA SPINOFF 2009 HIGHLIGHTS TECHNOLOGIES THAT IMPROVE LIFE ON EARTH WASHINGTON -- The 2009 edition of NASA's Spinoff, a publication that shows how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life here on Earth, is available in print and online. The latest Spinoff highlights 49 significant examples of how NASA innovations have been transferred to the commercial marketplace, resulting in h ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM IDA Late in the Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Ida soaked Central America in the first week of November 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41013&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 05, 2009 (Posted on Nov 05, 2009 3:35 PM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Nov. 6, 2009 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-259 NASA SEEKS STUDENT PAYLOADS FOR HIGH-FLYING RESEARCH BALLOON WASHINGTON -- NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near space access for 1 ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. POISK POISED FOR LIVE NASA TV SPACE STATION DOCKING ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:26:38 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: POISK POISED FOR LIVE NASA TV SPACE STATION DOCKING November 5, 2009 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M09-212 POISK POISED FOR LIVE NASA TV SPACE STATIO ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- HAZE OVER INDIA Haze built over the Ganges Plain along the front of the Himalaya Mountains in late October 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41004&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 05, 2009 (Posted on Nov 05, 2009 11:26 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php? ...Continue Reading