Oct. 02, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-252 NASA SELECTS SCIENCE TEAMS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The interdisciplinary teams w ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 01 October 2008. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING ALONG THE GULF COAST Hurricane Ike pushed water far inland over a wide swath of the Gulf Coast when the storm came ashore on September 13, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15094 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 26 2008 (Posted on Oct 01 2008 11:58AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http ...Continue Reading

Oct. 2, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-190 NASA SETS MEDIA CREDENTIALS DEADLINES FOR NEXT SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission, targeted to launch Nov. 16. The 15-day flight will deliver equipment and supplies to the International Space Station in preparation for expansion from a three to six person resident crew aboard the complex. The mission also will in ...Continue Reading

Oct. 2, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Laura Layton Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-8170 laura.a.layton@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-188 NASA TO DISCUSS MISSION TO EXPLORE THE EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference on Monday, Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first spacecraft that will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the c ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 155 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE 2. NASA ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE AWARD FOR OXYGEN MASK INVENTION 3. NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:32:23 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE October 1, 2008 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483- ...Continue Reading

Oct. 1, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-059 NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010. The action extends the U.S. On-Orbit Segment Acceptance and Vehicle Sustaining E ...Continue Reading

Oct. 01, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-189 NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew Oct. 12 and the landing of the current crew Oct. 23. NASA's Expedition 18 Commander and Science Officer Mike Finc ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 30 September 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OFF WEST AFRICA Dust plumes blew off the west coast of northern Africa in late September 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15093 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 29 2008 (Posted on Oct 01 2008 2:01PM) -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODING ALONG THE GULF COAST Hurricane Ike pushed water far inland over a wide swath of the Gulf Coast when the storm came as ...Continue Reading

Oct. 01, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 08-251 NASA'S MESSENGER SPACECRAFT RETURNS TO MERCURY WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and collect science data. The MErcury Surface, ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 64 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S STS-129 MISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:10:17 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S STS-129 MISSION September 30, 2008 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington ...Continue Reading