Oct. 08, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-255 SPINOFF 2008 HIGHLIGHTS NASA INNOVATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE WASHINGTON -- The 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency's 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life. This anniversary edition features a 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies from historical progr ...Continue Reading

Oct. 8, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-061 NASA SELECTS ITT FOR SPACE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected ITT Corporation, Advanced Engineering and Sciences of Herndon, Va., to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services contr ...Continue Reading

Oct. 8, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-199 NASA ISSUES SPACE SHUTTLE TO CONSTELLATION WORKFORCE TRANSITION REPORT WASHINGTON -- NASA is releasing an updated version of the Workforce Transition Strategy Report, which was delivered to Congress on Wednesday. The report details the agency's plan to minimize job losses while transitioning from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program. The report will be available online Wednesda ...Continue Reading

Oct. 08, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-255 WASHINGTON -- The 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency's 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life. This anniversary edition features a 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies from historical programs and projects, and a summary of award-winning NASA technologi ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 63 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS WITH STUDENT CHESS OPPONENTS THURSDAY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:12:40 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS WITH STUDENT CHESS OPPONENTS THURSDAY Ocotber 7, 2008 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 Glenn ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 06 October 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the Himalaya in early October 2008, likely the result of industrial pollution. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15097 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 04 2008 (Posted on Oct 06 2008 3:16PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ ...Continue Reading

Oct. 07, 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 Glenn Petersen U.S. Chess Federation, Crossville, Tenn. 732-252-8388 gpetersen@uschess.org Bob Adams Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, Wash. 425-564-3081 badams@bellevuecollege.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-192 NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS WITH STUDENT CHESS OPPONENTS THURSDAY HOUSTON -- NASA as ...Continue Reading

Oct. 06, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-254 SMALL ASTEROID TO LIGHT UP SKY OVER AFRICA WASHINGTON -- An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially brilliant natural fireworks display. It is unlikely any sizable fragments ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2008 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-060 NASA AWARDS FUTURE VEHICLE AIRCRAFT RESEARCH CONTRACTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years. NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate selected teams led by The Boeing Company, GE Aviation, Lockheed ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-253 NASA SPACECRAFT READY TO EXPLORE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM GREENBELT, Md. -- The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The two-year mission will begin from the Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Mars ...Continue Reading