June 5, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-113 NASA TO ANNOUNCE CONSTELLATION SPACESUIT CONTRACT AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference Thursday, June 12, at 4:30 p.m. EDT, to announce the selection of the contractor for the Constellation Program's spacesuit system. The spacesuit system contract is for the design, development, test, evaluation, production, processing ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 04 June 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUME OVER IRAQ AND SAUDI ARABIA A dust plume hovered over the Middle East in early June 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14876 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 03 2008 (Posted on Jun 05 2008 2:04PM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- CHAITEN VOLCANO ERUPTS Dormant for more than 9,000 years, the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile began to erupt on May 2, 2008, forcing ...Continue Reading

June 5, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Isabel Lara Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington 202-633-2374 Laral@si.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-114 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO 'SPACE: A JOURNEY TO OUR FUTURE' PREVIEW WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum invite media to preview the "Space: A Journey to Our Future" traveling exhibit on Thursday, June 12, at 11 a.m. EDT. The museum is located at Independence Ave. and ...Continue Reading

June 5, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-112 DISCOVERY, SPACE STATION NEWS CONFERENCE SET FOR MONDAY HOUSTON -- The 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 4:02 p.m. CDT, Monday, June 9. Media may ask questions in person only from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Kennedy ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 03 June 2008. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DROUGHT IN ETHIOPIA Drought crept over Ethiopia after the failure of rains in October and November 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14871 *** (SPOT) image from May 20 2008 (Posted on Jun 02 2008 4:57PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http://earthobs ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 02 June 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- 2008 HURRICANE SEASONS BEGIN IN EASTERN PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC Both the eastern Pacific and Atlantic hurricane seasons of 2008 were inaugurated within a few days of each other in late May and the first days of June by related tropical storms. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14874 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 31 2008 (Posted on Jun 02 2008 9:50AM) --------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

June 2, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@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: M08-111 NASA TARGETS GLAST LAUNCH FOR JUNE 7 WASHINGTON -- NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch win ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 30 May 2008. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DROUGHT IN THE FERTILE CRESCENT One of the worst droughts in the past decade settled heavily over the Fertile Crescent region of Iraq and Syria in the winter of 2007-2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14858 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 07 2008 (Posted on May 27 2008 4:28PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE NEAR CHENGDU, CHINA On May 12, 2008, an ea ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2008 Mike Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-136 NASA'S SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCHES WITH JAPANESE LABORATORY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station. The mission, designated STS-124, is the second ...Continue Reading

May 30, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Keith Henry Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6120 h.k.henry@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-135 NASA LUNAR ART CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED HAMPTON, Va. -- A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam won the first annual NASA Lunar Art Contest sponsored by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. A work by Justin Burns, a sophomore at the University of Memphis, depicts a cartoon-like motorcyclist on her air cushi ...Continue Reading