May 08, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jeanne Ryba Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 jeanne.m.ryba@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-079 NASA ANNOUNCES STS-125 SHUTTLE PRELAUNCH AND MISSION WEB COVERAGE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcast, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to service and upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is scheduled to li ...Continue Reading

May 7, 2009 Robert "Doc" Mirelson/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4495/4997 doc.mirelson@nasa.gov stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-078 NASA SETS TELECONFERENCE TO DISCUSS HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REVIEW WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference on Friday, May 8, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, to discuss the launch of an independent review of NASA's human space flight plans. The briefing participant is: - Norman Augustine, chairman, Review of United States Human Sp ...Continue Reading

May 7, 2009 Michael Cabbage/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-102 NASA ANNOUNCES FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET WASHINGTON -- NASA announced Thursday an $18.69 billion budget for fiscal year 2010 to advance Earth science, complete the International Space Station, explore the solar system and conduct aeronautics research. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in the fisca ...Continue Reading

May 7, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-100 NASA RELEASES INTERACTIVE 3-D VIEWS OF SPACE STATION, NEW MARS ROVER WASHINGTON -- NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7. NASA and Microsoft's Virtual Earth te ...Continue Reading

May 6, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Chris Rink Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6786 christopher.p.rink@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-101 CARDIAC PATIENTS TAKE NASA SUPER PLASTIC TO HEART WASHINGTON -- A NASA technology that was developed for an aerospace high-speed research program is now part of an implantable device for heart failure patients. NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., created an advanced aerospace resin, named Langl ...Continue Reading

May 6, 2009 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 09-077 NASA TELEVISION TO PROVIDE HD COVERAGE OF SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live high definition coverage of Monday's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The NASA Television HD feed (Channel 105) will be available beginning Friday at 12 p.m., EDT, with live images from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Flor ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Another dust storm blew eastward out the Taklimakan Desert in early May 2009, continuing a pattern of intermittent dust-storm activity in the region. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38416&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 05, 2009 (Posted on May 05, 2 ...Continue Reading

May 6, 2009 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: 09-099 NASA'S SPITZER TELESCOPE WARMS UP TO NEW CAREER WASHINGTON -- The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is expected to run out of the liquid ...Continue Reading

May 6, 2009 Michael Cabbage Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-098 NASA WINS TWO WEBBY AWARDS FOR INTERNET EXCELLENCE WASHINGTON -- NASA has received two Webby awards for excellence on the Internet. NASA's main Web site, http://www.nasa.gov, won the People's Voice award for best government Web site. The Cassini mission Web site, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov, received a ...Continue Reading

May 5, 2009 Michael Cabbage/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-076 NASA ANNOUNCES FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET BRIEFINGS FOR PRESS WASHINGTON -- NASA Acting Administrator Chris Scolese will brief the news media about the agency's fiscal year 2010 budget at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 7. The news conference will take place in NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium, located at 300 E St. S.W., in Washington ...Continue Reading