July 1, 2008 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-128 NASA TO REVEAL NEW DISCOVERIES FROM MERCURY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference Thursday, July 3, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss analysis of data from the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft's flyby of Mercury earlie ...Continue Reading

July 1, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-129 NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing Wednesday, July 30, at 1 p.m. CDT, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and an American spaceflight participant. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, a ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 30 June 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN AFGHANISTAN In late June 2008, a dust storm formed over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14916 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 29 2008 (Posted on Jun 30 2008 3:59PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA "Dry" thunderstorms triggered hundreds of fires in California on the first day of summer 20 ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:19:06 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA June 30, 2008 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 Report #H08-162 ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA HOUSTON -- Veteran space shuttle astronaut James Reil ...Continue Reading

The NASA History Division is saddened to note the passing of Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. on Saturday, June 28. During a very distinguished career, Dr. Seamans served as the NASA Associate and Deputy Administrator during much of the 1960s. He wrote two books that the NASA History Division published, an autobiography and a managerial account of the Apollo program. Please see http://history.nasa.gov/Biographies/seamans.html for links to these two publications, a link to the NASA Administrator's statement on Dr. Seamans ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 27 June 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN AFGHANISTAN On June 27, 2008, a dust storm formed over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14915 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 27 2008 (Posted on Jun 30 2008 1:39PM) -- FIRE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN RUSSIA Over 15,000 hectares of forest were on fire in eastern Russia in mid- to late June 2008. This ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.r.mould@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-164 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF HOPKINS LEAVING NASA WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief of Strategic Communications Robert Hopkins announced Monday that he will be leaving the agency for a position in the private sector. Hopkins served as a senior adviser to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and as assistant administrator for the recently established Office of Communications Planning before assuming the strategic communi ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.r.mould@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-163 NASA ADMINISTRATOR STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT SEAMANS WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin regarding the death Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., NASA deputy administrator from 1965 to 1968: "Robert Seamans was one of the early leaders in launching NASA's efforts to explore the new frontier of space. As NASA's associate administrator and then deputy administra ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-162 ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA HOUSTON -- Veteran space shuttle astronaut James Reilly has left NASA to accept a position in the private sector. Reilly flew on three space shuttle missions to two space stations. "Jim Reilly performed superbly as an astronaut over the course of his career at NASA," Astronaut Office chie ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 59 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ASTRONAUT BARBARA MORGAN TO LEAVE NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:17:02 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: ASTRONAUT BARBARA MORGAN TO LEAVE NASA June 27, 2008 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 Report #H08-161 ASTRONAUT BARBARA MORGAN TO LEAVE NASA HOUSTON -- Veteran space shuttle astrona ...Continue Reading