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

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