The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST Forest fires were burning in Russia's Far East in late May 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38774&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 24, 2009 (Posted on May 26, 2009 3:55 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER INDIA AND PAKISTAN ...Continue Reading

May 27, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Alan Buis/Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474/9382 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-122 NASA SELECTS STUDENT'S ENTRY AS NEW MARS ROVER NAME WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in ...Continue Reading

May 27, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-094 NEW STATION CREW LAUNCHES ON SOYUZ; BRIEFING FROM SPACE ON JUNE 1 HOUSTON -- The International Space Station crew is awaiting the arrival of three new members that will usher in an era of six-person crews aboard the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astron ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM OVER NORTHERN ARGENTINA A rare cyclonic storm inundated Argentina and Paraguay in the third week of May 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38763&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 21, 2009 (Posted on May 26, 2009 10:45 AM) ------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-093 NASA BRIEFING PROVIDES NEW GLOBAL VIEW OF OCEAN HEALTH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m. EDT, to present the first-ever global views of the health of marine plant life. Using a new measure of the health of phytoplankton in the world's oceans made possible by data from NASA's Aqua satellite, scientists have discovered new regions where marine ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2009 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-121 NASA SELECTS HIGH-PERFORMING INTERNS AS FIRST STUDENT AMBASSADORS WASHINGTON -- NASA is taking further steps to engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive opportunities. In one such effort, NASA has inducted more than 80 high-performing interns into the newly unveiled NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 59 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-125 MCC Status Report #26 2. STS-125 MCC Status Report #27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:05:45 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-125 MCC Status Report #26 STS-125 Report #26 Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 12:30 a.m. CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas Atlantis’ crew is again preparing for landing today as mission managers continue to ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Alan Brown Dryden Flight Research Center 661-276-2665 alan.brown@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-120 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE RETURNS TO EARTH AFTER HUBBLE MISSION EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Spa ...Continue Reading

There are 4 messages totalling 146 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. HAMMOND NATIVE HELPS COMPLETES NASA INTERNSHIP 2. LUBBOCK-NATIVE COMPLETES INTERNSHIP AT NASA 3. STS-125 MCC Status Report #25 (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 05:57:41 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: HAMMOND NATIVE HELPS COMPLETES NASA INTERNSHIP May 26, 2009 Jenna C Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JE09-007 HAMMOND NATIVE HELPS ...Continue Reading

May 23, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-119 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE LANDING DELAYED BY WEATHER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will stay in space another day after bad weather prevented them from landing Saturday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Flight Director Norm Knight and the entry team will evaluate weather ...Continue Reading