July 21, 2008 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937/207-1323 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-047 NASA AMES AWARDS CONTRACT FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES SUPPORT MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will award a Small 8 (a) Business performance-based task order under a General Services Administration Financial and Business Solutions schedule valued a ...Continue Reading

July 21, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-136 NASA SETS MEDIA CREDENTIALS DEADLINES FOR NEXT SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to return to the Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch Oct. 8. The 11-day flight will include five spacewalks to make final repairs and upgrades to the telescope, leaving it better than ever and ready for another five years -- or mo ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 18 July 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA "Dry" thunderstorms triggered hundreds of fires in California on the first day of summer 2008. The fires continued to burn in mid-July. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14962 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 18 2008 (Posted on Jul 21 2008 12:19PM) -- STORM (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE ELIDA Hurricane Elida formed in the Eastern Pacific ocean off the Centr ...Continue Reading

July 21, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 John.yembrick-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-181 STATEMENT ON INACCURATE REPORTS ABOUT JAPANESE CARGO SERVICES WASHINGTON -- Contrary to news reports, NASA has not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) -- uninhabited resupply cargo ships for the space station -- from the Japanese Space Agency, or JAXA. NASA is committed to domestic commercial cargo resupply to the space station and does not plan to procu ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 57 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR EQUIPMENT DELIVERY MISSION TO SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:02:32 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR EQUIPMENT DELIVERY MISSION TO SPACE STATION July 16, 2008 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 Report #H08-176 NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR EQUIP ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-180 NASA ANNOUNCES COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAMS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Office of Education at headquarters in Washington has announced three new extramural funding opportunities that could result in the award of grants or cooperative agreements. One of the three funding opportunities is the K-12 Competitive Grants Opportunity, a competitive education grant program targeting secondary school level teaching an ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jenna Mills Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0185 jenna.c.mills@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-135 ULTIMATE 'ASK THE EXPERTS' EXPERIENCE FOR CORPUS CHRISTI STUDENTS HOUSTON -- Students from the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas, will have an opportunity to experience the excitement of spaceflight first hand. They will be participating in a live in-flight education downli ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 17 July 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN RUSSIA Over 15,000 hectares of forest were on fire in eastern Russia in mid- to late June 2008. A huge river of smoke spread south and east from the fires on July 2. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14958 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 18 2008 (Posted on Jul 18 2008 11:14AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NAS ...Continue Reading

July 17, 2008 David Mould/Jason S. Sharp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600/5213 david.r.mould@nasa.gov, jason.s.sharp@nasa.gov Mark Hess Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-6255 mark.s.hess@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-179 NASA NAMES STRAIN NEW GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday announced that Rob Strain will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Strain is currently the head of the Space Depa ...Continue Reading

July 17, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Laura Layton Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8170 laura.a.layton@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-133 NASA TELECONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE NORTHERN LIGHTS FINDINGS WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, July 24, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the first results from a fleet of five satellites that have discovered what powers sudden brightening and rapid movements of the Northern Lights, or au ...Continue Reading