May 11, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 Beth Hagenauer Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-7960/3449 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-52 NASA'S SOFIA TO BE REDEDICATED ON HISTORIC LINDBERGH ANNIVERSARY WACO, Texas - On May 21, Charles Lindbergh's grandson Erik will help NASA dedicate a special 747 astronomy aircraft to the trailblazing aviator. May 21 is the 80th anniversary of Lindbergh's historic solo New York-to-Paris flight. The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. CDT, at ...Continue Reading

May 11, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-53 NASA TV BROADCASTS CARGO SHIP ARRIVAL TO SPACE STATION HOUSTON - A cargo ship with more than two tons of supplies for the International Space Station will launch Friday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams will receive the shipment of food, fuel and supplies o ...Continue Reading

May 11, 2007 Beth Dickey/Melissa Mathews Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/1272 Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 RELEASE: 07-112 NASA COMPLETES CONSTELLATION GROUND OPERATIONS REVIEW WASHINGTON - NASA has established a requirements baseline for ground systems to be developed in support of the Constellation Program. The systems requirements review was conducted at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 5. "Completion of the systems requirements review marks a major milestone ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *May 11, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: May 11, 2007 10:50 am EDT* *Regolith Rumble: Stage Set for Moon Dirt Digging Contest*Six teams from across the country are headed for a rumble in California on Saturday to compete with Moon dirt digging robots.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *NASA to Discuss Fuel ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *May 10, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: May 10, 2007 03:54 pm EDT* *Tomorrow's Airliners: Stronger, More Comfortable and Mainly Plastic*New Boeing and Airbus airliners will mainly be made of very strong plastics.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Sizzling Planet Makes Some Stars Look Cool * *On Guard: ...Continue Reading

Today's Top News Thursday May 10, 2007   Hillary Clinton Less Powerful Than Bill in News Interviews President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton don't always operate like a unified political animal. Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently Weird Gravity in Canada Blamed on Hefty Glaciers Fake Snot Makes Electronic Nose Smell Better 14 Countries Top U.S. in Broadband Penetration advertisement Top Features What's Your Environmental Footprint? Read More Vote Now: The ...Continue Reading

May 10, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Lindsay Crouch Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-3189 Kevin Crossett Jamestown 2007, Wiliamsburg, Va. 757-253-4534 RELEASE: 07-111 BACK TO THE FUTURE - NASA STYLE JAMESTOWN, Va. - What do Captain John Smith and Space Shuttle Commander Rick Sturckow have in common? Or Pocahontas and NASA astronaut Suni Williams? These explorers may be separated by 400 years, but they share the same spirit of adventure and discovery. As an official ...Continue Reading

May 10, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-51a NASA UPDATES PLANS FOR HUBBLE 'RING OF DARK MATTER' BRIEFING GREENBELT, Md. - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on May 15 to discuss the strongest evidence to date that dark matter exists. This evidence was found in a ghostly ring of dark matter in the cluster CL ...Continue Reading

May 10, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202 358-5241 Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886 RELEASE: 07-110 HIGH SCHOOL WINNERS CHOSEN IN NASA AERONAUTICS ESSAY CONTEST HAMPTON, Va. - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has identified the winners of its high school contest to describe "Air Transportation in 2057." Sarah Vaden from Roanoke Valley Governor's School in Roanoke, Va., and Emma Peterson from Burnsview Secondary School in Delta, Briti ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 May 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT On May 10, 2007, a dust storm covered most of the Taklimakan Desert in western China. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14256 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 10 2007 (Posted on May 10 2007 1:56PM) DUST PLUME OFF THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA A dust plume several hundred kilometers across blew off the west coast of Africa on May 9, 2007. * http://naturalhazar ...Continue Reading