The following sections were updated since 24 October 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN QUEENSLAND Several parts of Queensland, Australia, were experiencing bushfires in late October 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15113 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 24 2008 (Posted on Oct 27 2008 1:21PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http://earthobs ...Continue Reading

Oct. 27, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Becky Ramsey X PRIZE Foundation, Washington 202-595-4329 prcontact@xprize.org RELEASE: 08-271 NASA $350,000 PRIZE GOES TO ARMADILLO AEROSPACE IN LUNAR CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M. The challenge is a two-level, $2 million competition designed to accelerate commercial sp ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 88 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 2. NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:38:23 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION October 24, 2008 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Katherine Trinidad Hea ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-215 NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew members, one that urges all Americans to exercise their right to vote and another marking the station ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-216 NASA TO RELEASE SCIENCE RESULTS, IMAGES FROM SECOND MERCURY FLYBY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by a NASA spacecraft. The briefing will take place in the television studio at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E Street, S.W., in Washin ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-269 EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- Spaceflight participant Richard Garriott and two members of the 17th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth at 10:37 p.m. CDT, Thursday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononeko landed t ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-270 NASA'S NEXT MOON MISSION BEGINS THERMAL VACUUM TEST GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space. The spacecraft, built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has been lifted into ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 22 October 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE, GULF OF ADEN The third tropical cyclone of the season in the northern Indian Ocean brought rare rains to the desert regions of Yemen and Oman in the third week of October 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15112 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 23 2008 (Posted on Oct 23 2008 1:38PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Robert Monroe/Mario Aguilera Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. 858-534-3624 scrippsnews@ucsd.edu RELEASE: 08-268 POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS MORE COMMON IN ATMOSPHERE THAN ESTIMATED WASHINGTON -- New research indicates a powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated. The research, based on data from a NASA-funded measurement network, examined ni ...Continue Reading

Oct. 22, 2008 Don Savage/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0183/5241 donald.l.savage@nasa.gov, j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix/Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745/0697 susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov, edward.s.campion@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-214 NEXT HUBBLE TELESCOPE MEDIA TELECONFERENCE THURSDAY, OCT. 23 WASHINGTON -- NASA will provide an update to reporters on the current efforts to restore Hubble Space Telescope science observations during a media te ...Continue Reading