Oct. 28, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Mike Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-272 NASA SELECTS 142 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROJECTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 142 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, known as SBIR. The selected projects have a total value of ...Continue Reading

Oct. 28, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-274 NASA-ENHANCED DUST STORM PREDICTIONS TO AID HEALTH COMMUNITY WASHINGTON -- NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers. Scientists announced the finding as a five-year NASA-funded project nears its conclusion. Led by investigators Stanley Morain of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and William Sprigg of the ...Continue Reading

Oct. 28, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jennifer Huergo Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-5618 jennifer.huergo@jhuapl.edu Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-273 NASA ORBITER REVEALS DETAILS OF A WETTER MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discover ...Continue Reading

Oct. 27, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-217 NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT STATUS OF NEXT SHUTTLE LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers have scheduled a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for no earlier than 6 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 30, to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The news conference will begin ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 24 October 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN QUEENSLAND Several parts of Queensland, Australia, were experiencing bushfires in late October 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15113 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 24 2008 (Posted on Oct 27 2008 1:21PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http://earthobs ...Continue Reading

Oct. 27, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Becky Ramsey X PRIZE Foundation, Washington 202-595-4329 prcontact@xprize.org RELEASE: 08-271 NASA $350,000 PRIZE GOES TO ARMADILLO AEROSPACE IN LUNAR CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M. The challenge is a two-level, $2 million competition designed to accelerate commercial sp ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 88 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 2. NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:38:23 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION October 24, 2008 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Katherine Trinidad Hea ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-215 NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew members, one that urges all Americans to exercise their right to vote and another marking the station ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-216 NASA TO RELEASE SCIENCE RESULTS, IMAGES FROM SECOND MERCURY FLYBY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by a NASA spacecraft. The briefing will take place in the television studio at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E Street, S.W., in Washin ...Continue Reading

Oct. 23, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-269 EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- Spaceflight participant Richard Garriott and two members of the 17th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth at 10:37 p.m. CDT, Thursday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononeko landed t ...Continue Reading