Oct. 30, 2008 Don Savage Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0183/5241 donald.l.savage@nasa.gov John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-221 NASA UPDATES THURSDAY'S HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION AND SPACE SHUTTLE READINESS REVIEW BRIEFING TIMES WASHINGTON -- The time of Thursday's media teleconference to discuss the status of the shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has changed to 5:30 p.m. EDT. A news conference at the Kennedy Space Cen ...Continue Reading

Oct. 30, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rhea R. Borja 818- 354-0850 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. rhea.r.borja@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-278 NASA TO HOLD SMALL BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM WASHINGTON -- NASA will host the inaugural Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony Nov. 17-18 in Washington at the Hilton Washington, 1919 Connecticut Ave., NW. Participation in this symposium is open to industry, academia and ...Continue Reading

Oct. 30, 2008 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov 202-358-1979 RELEASE: 08-277 NASA AND KOREA SIGN STATEMENT OF INTENT FOR FUTURE COOPERATION Washington - During a meeting Thursday at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) in Seoul, Korea, NASA's Assistant Administrator for External Relations, Michael F. O'Brien, and MEST's Director-General for Big Science, Munki Lee, signed a joint statement of intent identifying poten ...Continue Reading

Oct. 29, 2008 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-220 NASA TV PROVIDES HD FEED OF DOCUMENTARY ON NASA'S FIRST 50 YEARS WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide a high definition feed of the documentary "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 1 and 8 p.m. EDT. Hosted by Neil Armstrong, the 90-minute documentary features film and video highlights of the agency's first half-century, as well as the i ...Continue Reading

Oct. 29, 2008 Don Savage/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0183/5241 donald.l.savage@nasa.gov, j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix/Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745/0697 susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov, edward.s.campion@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-219 NASA TO DISCUSS STATUS OF HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION THURSDAY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 30, to discuss the status of the upcoming shuttle servicing mission ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 28 October 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM RASHMI Tropical Storm Rashmi came ashore over Bangladesh on October 27, 2008, taking at least 15 lives. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15114 *** (QuikSCAT) image from Oct 26 2008 (Posted on Oct 28 2008 6:33PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http:/ ...Continue Reading

Oct. 29, 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: 08-275 MESSENGER SPACECRAFT REVEALS MORE HIDDEN TERRITORY ON MERCURY WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several ...Continue Reading

Oct. 29, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Jen Hirsch Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 617-253-1682 jfhirsch@mit.edu RELEASE: 08-276 NASA MEASUREMENTS SHOW GREENHOUSE GAS METHANE ON THE RISE AGAIN WASHINGTON -- The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end approximately a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable. The new study is based on data from a worldwide NASA ...Continue Reading

Oct. 28, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-063 NASA SELECTS GODDARD PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND CONTROL CONTRACTOR GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA has selected ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, LLC, of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. The work will support NASA' ...Continue Reading

Oct. 28, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-218 NASA TO UPDATE REPORTERS ABOUT CONSTELLATION PROGRAM WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 1 p.m. EDT, to brief reporters about recent developments and ongoing progress in NASA's Constellation Program. Constellation will build the spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and re ...Continue Reading