Nov. 10, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-230 NASA HOSTS SEMINAR ON EARTH'S ROLE IN OUR CARBON DIOXIDE FUTURE WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a seminar at 11 a.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 14, to discuss the current state of knowledge about how the "breathing" Earth influences current and future levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The seminar will take place in NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb Auditorium, 300 E Street, S.W., Washington. ...Continue Reading

Nov. 10, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jeanne Ryba Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 jeanne.m.ryba@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-228 NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE SHUTTLE PRELAUNCH AND MISSION WEB COVERAGE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is scheduled to lift off Friday, ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA CONTRACT INTEGRATES MISSION OPERATIONS, TRAINING FACILITIES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:03:14 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA CONTRACT INTEGRATES MISSION OPERATIONS, TRAINING FACILITIES November 7, 2008 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 Report #C08-064c NASA CONTRA ...Continue Reading

Nov. 7, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-64 NASA CONTRACT INTEGRATES MISSION OPERATIONS, TRAINING FACILITIES WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a $667.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide integrated support for the hardware, software, data and displays used to train for and execute human spaceflight missions. ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE PALOMA A late-season storm, Paloma developed as a tropical depression in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua on November 5, 2008, and became a hurricane the following day. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35840 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 06, 2008 (Posted on Nov 07, 2008 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 07, 2008 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov Tina Tate Newseum, Washington 202-292-6313 ttate@newseum.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-226 APOLLO 8 CREW REMEMBERS HISTORIC MISSION LIVE ON NASA TV WASHINGTON -- Almost 40 years after NASA executed the bold decision to send the first human flight of the gigantic Saturn V rocket to the moon, the crew of Apollo 8 will reunite as part of a special public program produced in cooperation with the Newse ...Continue Reading

Nov. 07, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-227 HUBBLE ANNOUNCES A MAJOR EXTRASOLAR PLANET DISCOVERY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA's James E. Webb auditorium. This unique discovery, m ...Continue Reading

Apologies for mass mailing! Jorge Vazquez (JPL) and Chelle Gentemann (RSS) would like to invite you to participate in the International GHRSST Users Symposium to be held 28-29 May 2009 in Santa Rosa, CA. Please forward, or redistribute as you please, to your center, school faculty, colleagues, or student email lists. Grants are available for students! International GHRSST Data Users Symposium 28-29 May 2009, Santa Rosa, CA The Group for High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) project provides a new generatio ...Continue Reading

Nov. 06, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Emily Outen Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022 emily.s.outen@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-283 DIGITAL LEARNING NETWORK HOSTS WORLDWIDE VIRTUAL PARTY FOR NASA HAMPTON, Va. -- Schools all over the world will wish NASA a happy birthday as part of an all-day virtual birthday party through NASA's Digital Learning Network on Thursday, Nov. 13. The virtual party begins at 9 a.m. EST with live videoconference ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN QUEENSLAND In late October 2008, scattered fires burned across Queensland from Cape York Peninsula to the area around the city of Rockhampton. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35822 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 06, 2008 (Posted on Nov 06, 2008 12:38 PM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading