Oct. 12, 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: 08-257 NEW CREW BLASTS OFF FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- A new crew that will live and work aboard the International Space Station rocketed into orbit early Sunday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. U.S. astronaut E. Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and Richard Garriott, a U.S. computer game ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 37 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. JSC DEPUTY DIRECTOR HONORED AS HISPANIC 2008 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:16:23 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: JSC DEPUTY DIRECTOR HONORED AS HISPANIC 2008 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Oct. 10, 2008 Jennifer Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J08-013 JSC DEPUTY DIRECTOR HONORED AS HISPANIC 2008 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR HOUSTO ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 October 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE NORBERT Forming in the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Norbert became a severe hurricane. By October 8, 2008, it was headed for Baja California. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15100 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 09 2008 (Posted on Oct 10 2008 2:07PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://na ...Continue Reading

Oct. 10, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0697 edward.s.campion@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-200 NASA TO PROVIDE UPDATE TO HUBBLE ANOMALY STATUS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space Telescope in late-September. The failure halted a ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 71 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SETS BRIEFINGS FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION TO THE SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:26:07 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SETS BRIEFINGS FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION TO THE SPACE STATION October 9, 2008 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Report #M08-201 NASA SETS ...Continue Reading

Oct. 9, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-200 NASA TO PROVIDE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY LAUNCH UPDATE WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 10, to brief reporters after a meeting held by the agency's administrator concerning the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. The meeting is to discuss technical and budget issues. The mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, will assess a variety of scientific objectiv ...Continue Reading

Oct. 9, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-200 NASA TO PROVIDE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY LAUNCH UPDATE WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 10, to brief reporters after a meeting held by the agency's administrator concerning the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. The meeting is to discuss technical and budget issues. The mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, will assess a variety of scientific objectiv ...Continue Reading

Oct. 9, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-201 NASA SETS BRIEFINGS FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION TO THE SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a series of news briefings on Monday, Nov. 3, to preview the upcoming space shuttle Endeavour mission that will outfit the International Space Station for six-person crews. NASA Television and the agency's ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 08 October 2008. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS ON THE MEXICAN GULF COAST Rivers along Mexico's Gulf coast burst their banks after two weeks of heavy rain in late September and early October 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15099 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 07 2008 (Posted on Oct 09 2008 2:05PM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE NORBERT Forming in the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Norbert became a severe hur ...Continue Reading

Oct. 08, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-255 SPINOFF 2008 HIGHLIGHTS NASA INNOVATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE WASHINGTON -- The 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency's 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life. This anniversary edition features a 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies from historical progr ...Continue Reading