April 23rd 2009 PDT
There are 2 messages totalling 135 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SETS BRIEFINGS TO PROVIDE UPDATE ABOUT HUBBLE SHUTTLE MISSION 2. NASA, NSBRI SELECT 12 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:15 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SETS BRIEFINGS TO PROVIDE UPDATE ABOUT HUBBLE SHUTTLE MISSION April 21, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 James Hartsfield ...Continue Reading
April 23rd 2009 PDT
Readers of this listserv may be interested to know about Paul Dickson's /A Dictionary of the Space Age/. This newest book published by Johns Hopkins University Press' New Series in NASA History is an unusually compelling, useful, and readable reference work. A greatly updated and expanded version of /The Origins of NASA /Names (NASA SP-4402, 1976), this new volume by an experienced lexicographer employs an Oxford English Dictionary-style approach to explain the etymology and first usage of both familiar an ...Continue Reading
April 23rd 2009 PDT
April 22, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-087 UPDATED WEB FEATURE SHOWS HOW NASA TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVE LIVES WASHINGTON -- NASA has launched an expanded version of an interactive online program that allows users to discover some of the many NASA technologies that positively impact everyday life. The interactive "NASA at Home" and "NASA City" sites are enhanced with many new features, including green-related information to c ...Continue Reading
April 22nd 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM BIJLI Tropical Storm Bijli formed in the Bay of Bengal in mid-April 2009, and the storm appeared to be headed for landfall in eastern Bangladesh on April 17. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38280&src=nha *** (TRMM) image from Apr 17, 2009 (Posted on Apr 20, 2009 2:55 PM) -- FLOODS (1 u ...Continue Reading
April 22nd 2009 PDT
The provider of all MODIS data, MODAPS will be down from Monday, April 20, 5pm through Thursday, April 23, 12pm while upgrades are made to the electrical power at their facility. There will be no MODIS data and consequently no GHRSST data during this time. We apologize for the late notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------- User Services Office Physical Oceanography DAAC Email: podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory &nbs ...Continue Reading
April 22nd 2009 PDT
April 21, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-065 NASA SETS BRIEFINGS TO PROVIDE UPDATE ABOUT HUBBLE SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold news briefings April 23 to update reporters about the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2009 PDT
April 20, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov Kathy Major National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston 713-798-5893 major@bcm.edu RELEASE: 09-086 NASA, NSBRI SELECT 12 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund a dozen proposals to ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2009 PDT
April 20, 2009 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Susan Burgess National Arboretum, Washington 202-245-4565 susan.burgess@ars.usda.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-064 NASA'S APOLLO 14 LEGACY CONTINUES WITH EARTH DAY TREE PLANTING WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to join NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests to celebrate Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the Nationa ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Dust plumes hovered over the Taklimakan Desert in mid-April 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38277&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 19, 2009 (Posted on Apr 20, 2009 1:31 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38263&src ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2009 PDT
April 20, 2009 Al Feinberg Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0309 al.feinberg@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-063 NASA AIRS HD EARTH VIEWS FROM SPACE STATION FOR EARTH DAY WASHINGTON -- A special high definition feed from NASA Television on Earth Day, April 22, will feature views of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station. The space station and its crew orbit Earth once every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles. It can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. The orbi ...Continue Reading
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