May 25th 2007 PST
May 24, 2007 Beth Dickey/Melissa Mathews Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/1272 Kelly Humphries/John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-122 REVIEWS DOCUMENT NASA'S PROGRESS ON NEXT HUMAN SPACECRAFT HOUSTON - NASA this week wrapped up six months of system requirements reviews for the Orion spacecraft, the Ares launch vehicles and other support systems, bringing together the Constellation Program's list of basic capability needs. The Constellation Program is developing a new s ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2007 PST
May 23, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 RELEASE: 07-121 NASA FUNDS UNIVERSITIES' NEW EXPERIMENTS FOR SUBORBITAL FLIGHTS WASHINGTON - NASA has selected four universities to conduct suborbital scientific research that is a new step in reinvigorating the agency's sounding rocket science program. Managed out of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., the sounding rocket program offers a low-cost test bed for new scientific studies and techniques, scientific instrumentation an ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2007 PST
Today's Top News Wednesday May 23, 2007 Birds Relax in Tropics Like Humans Tropical birds use less energy than northern cousins, study finds. Corn Stalks Engineered to Self-Degrade into Fuel Study: Your Personality Can Change (and Probably Should) Finger Length Predicts SAT Performance Virgin Shark Gives Birth advertisement Top Features What's Your Environmental Footprint? Read More Top 10 Aphrodisiacs Read More Gallery: Great White Sharks Read More ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2007 PST
The following sections were updated since 22 May 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT A dust storm formed in the Taklimakan Desert on May 19, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14274 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 19 2007 (Posted on May 22 2007 10:52AM) DUST PLUME OFF THE COAST OF EGYPT A dust plume blew off the coast of Egypt and over the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14275 *** MODI ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2007 PST
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *May 23, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: May 23, 2007 11:26 am EDT* *NASA Adds Docking Capability For Next Space Observatory*NASA is adding a docking ring to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Boeing Names First Dreamliner Private Owner, Unveils 747-8I VIP Interior Co ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2007 PST
May 23, 2007 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 RELEASE: 07-120 NASA, AOL AND MAD SCIENCE CHOOSE PENNANT DESIGN CHALLENGE WINNER WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, NASA, AOL's kids service, KOL, and Mad Science announced that Tapasya Das of Mount Laurel, N.J., is the winner of the NASA Space Pennant Design Challenge. The winning pennant, titled "Education 4 Exploration," will fly on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission, targeted to launch this August. The grand prize also includes the ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2007 PST
The following sections were updated since 21 May 2007. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA The Bugaboo Fire in southern Georgia and northern Florida had scorched more than 287,000 acres as of May 20, 2007. This pair of images shows the fire and burn scar on May 20. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14270 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 20 2007 (Posted on May 21 2007 3:15PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2007 PST
May 22, 2007 Tabatha Thompson/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895/1726 RELEASE: 07-119 NASA SATELLITES BOLSTER RESEARCH ON BARREN MID-OCEAN REGIONS WASHINGTON - NASA satellite data have helped scientists solve a decades-old puzzle about how vast blooms of microscopic plants can form in the middle of otherwise barren mid-ocean regions. A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., has used the data in its work to show that episodic, swirling current system ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2007 PST
Today's Top News Tuesday May 22, 2007 New Buildings to Dance in the Wind Dubai will be the first site of newly designed rotating buildings. Government Forecast: Busy Hurricane Season The Truth About Lie Detectors New Cable Modem to Triple Internet Speed Bad Decision-Makers Lack Reasoning Skills advertisement Top Features What's Your Environmental Footprint? Read More Top 10 Aphrodisiacs Read More Gallery: Great White Sharks Read More Does Alco ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2007 PST
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