July 28, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison/Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov, bill.j.byerly@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-48 NASA AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR CONCEPTS OF LUNAR SURFACE SYSTEMS HOUSTON -- NASA's Constellation Program has selected 11 companies and one university to independently develop concepts that contribute to how astr ...Continue Reading

July 28, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-188 AVIATION INNOVATORS COMPETE FOR NASA TECHNOLOGY PRIZES WASHINGTON -- The 2008 General Aviation Technology Challenge will be held Aug. 4-10 at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif. Competitors will demonstrate innovations resulting in aircraft that are safer, less expensive and easier to operate, while having fewer negative impacts on the environment and communities surrounding airports. Th ...Continue Reading

July 28, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Sara Hammond University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-1974 shammond@lpl.arizona.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-140 NASA PHOENIX MISSION SCIENTISTS TO DISCUSS MARTIAN STUDIES TUCSON, Ariz. -- NASA and the University of Arizona, Tucson, will hold a media briefing Thursday, July 31, at 11 a.m. PDT, in the mission's Science Operations Center ...Continue Reading

July 28, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/4997 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov H. Keith Henry Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6120/344-7211 h.k.henry@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-137 MEDIA INVITED FOR DEMO OF LUNAR SURFACE MANIPULATOR CONCEPT HAMPTON, Va. -- A NASA concept for lifting and manipulating materials on the lunar surface will be demonstrated for reporters at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., on Friday, ...Continue Reading

July 28, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602j john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0697 edward.s.campion@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-138 NASA SETS BRIEFINGS FOR HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SHUTTLE MISSION HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 24 July 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA "Dry" thunderstorms triggered hundreds of fires in California on the first day of summer 2008. The fires continued to burn in late July. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14978 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 24 2008 (Posted on Jul 25 2008 11:24AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observator ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/4997 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-187 NASA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS PARACHUTE FOR ARES ROCKET HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 23 July 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE DOLLY Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean Sea between Honduras and Cuba on July 20, 2008. By July 23, it was a Category 1 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14977 *** (QuikSCAT) image from Jul 22 2008 (Posted on Jul 24 2008 1:54PM) * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14974 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 23 2008 (Posted on Jul 23 2008 ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Laura Layton Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-8170 laura.a.layton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-185 NASA SATELLITES DISCOVER WHAT POWERS NORTHERN LIGHTS GREENBELT, Md. -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights. The c ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2008 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Paul Hickman Internet Archive 415-462-1509, 415-561-6767 paul@archive.org RELEASE: 08-173 NASA AND INTERNET ARCHIVE LAUNCH CENTRALIZED RESOURCE FOR IMAGES WASHINGTON -- NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video Thursday. Located at www.nasaimages.org, the Internet s ...Continue Reading