May 26th 2008 PDT
May 25, 2008 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Sara Hammond University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-1974 shammond@lpl.arizona.edu RELEASE: JPL2008-081 NASA'S PHOENIX SPACECRAFT LANDS AT MARTIAN ARCTIC SITE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 22 May 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE YELLOW SEA Dust and haze hovered over Bo Hai and the Yellow Sea in late May 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14851 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 21 2008 (Posted on May 22 2008 5:05PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUMMIT FIRE, CALIFORNIA The Summit Fire in California was forcing road closures and evacuations in the Santa Cruz Mountains on May 23, 2008. ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2008 PDT
*NASA SimLabs News * VOLUME 8, ISSUE 2 http://www.simlabs.arc.nasa.gov/newsletter/news.html *May 2008 * TABLE OF CONTENTS If you are receiving this newsletter for the first time, SimLabs News is a quarterly publication reviewing current projects at the NASA Ames Simulation Laboratories (SimLabs). The facilities support government as well as private industry in a wide array of applications. To find out more, read on! 1. Improving Safety for the RASCAL Researchers evaluate improvements to the ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
May 22, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4044 robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-106 NASA'S GLAST SPACE TELESCOPE TO LAUNCH ABOARD DELTA II ON JUNE 3 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch of NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is targeted for Tuesday, June 3, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
May 22, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-105 NASA ANNOUNCES SHUTTLE PRELAUNCH EVENTS AND COUNTDOWN DETAILS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery. Shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission to the International Space Station is sched ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 21 May 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN Dust plumes blew off the north African coast and over the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14849 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 19 2008 (Posted on May 21 2008 4:36PM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY ON RABAUL VOLCANO, NEW BRITIAN Rabaul Volcano, on the northeastern tip of the island of New Britain ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
May 22, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-133 NASA UPDATES SPACE SHUTTLE TARGET LAUNCH DATES HOUSTON -- NASA Thursday adjusted the target launch dates for two space shuttle missions in 2008. Shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is now targeted for Oct. 8, and Endeavour's STS-126 supply mission to the International Space Station has move ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2008 PDT
May 21, 2008 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-028 NASA AWARDS AGENCY-WIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded its consolidated protective services contract to Coastal International Security, Inc. of Lorton, Va. The contract has a maximum value of $1.56 billion, if all options are exercised. Work under the contract will provide fire services, security services, emergency management, export control, protective services ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 20 May 2008. -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 4 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE NEAR CHENGDU, CHINA On May 12, 2008, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck China's Sichuan Province. Aftershocks, some of them larger than magnitude 6.0, continued in the week after the quake. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14848 *** RSI(FORMOSAT-2) image from May 14 2008 (Posted on May 20 2008 10:12AM) * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=1484 ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2008 PDT
May 20, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-103 NASA ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITIES TO VIEW INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- If you've never seen the International Space Station flying 220 miles overhead, this is the week to do so. The station will be in almost constant sunlight from Wednesday through Friday, offering an incredible view to sky gazers ...Continue Reading
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