April 20, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov Kathy Major National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston 713-798-5893 major@bcm.edu RELEASE: 09-086 NASA, NSBRI SELECT 12 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund a dozen proposals to ...Continue Reading

April 20, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Susan Burgess National Arboretum, Washington 202-245-4565 susan.burgess@ars.usda.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-064 NASA'S APOLLO 14 LEGACY CONTINUES WITH EARTH DAY TREE PLANTING WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to join NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests to celebrate Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the Nationa ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Dust plumes hovered over the Taklimakan Desert in mid-April 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38277&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 19, 2009 (Posted on Apr 20, 2009 1:31 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38263&src ...Continue Reading

April 20, 2009 Al Feinberg Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0309 al.feinberg@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-063 NASA AIRS HD EARTH VIEWS FROM SPACE STATION FOR EARTH DAY WASHINGTON -- A special high definition feed from NASA Television on Earth Day, April 22, will feature views of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station. The space station and its crew orbit Earth once every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles. It can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. The orbi ...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 SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA A dust storm struck southeastern Australia in mid-April 2009, west of the capital city of Canberra. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38253&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 15, 2009 (Posted on Apr 16, 2009 4:59 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new ima ...Continue Reading

April 17, 2009 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-062 NASA CELEBRATES EARTH DAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY WASHINGTON -- NASA centers across the nation invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency's efforts and contributions to understanding and protecting Earth. Begun in 1970, Earth Day is the annual celebration of the environment and a time to assess work still needed to protect the natural resources of our planet. The agency mainta ...Continue Reading

April 16, 2009 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-061 AEROSPACE SAFETY ADVISORY PANEL RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT WASHINGTON -- The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, has released its 2008 annual report. The report examines NASA's safety performance and advises agency and government leaders on ways to improve performance. The ASAP is an independent group of experts that has been evaluating NASA's safety performance and advising the agency ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER IRAQ Dust plumes hovered over Iraq and the surrounding region in mid-April 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38231&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 16, 2009 (Posted on Apr 16, 2009 12:34 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38228&src=nh ...Continue Reading

April 16, 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 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-085 NASA'S KEPLER CAPTURES FIRST VIEWS OF PLANET-HUNTING TERRITORY PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for pl ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. PILOT OF FINAL SHUTTLE MISSION TO HUBBLE SET FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:47:01 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: PILOT OF FINAL SHUTTLE MISSION TO HUBBLE SET FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS April 15, 2009 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #M09-060 PILOT OF FI ...Continue Reading