The following sections were updated since 27 April 2007. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- RECORD CROPS IN ARGENTINA Even though floods damaged crops in parts of Argentina, farmers were expecting a record harvest in April 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14231 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 06 2007 (Posted on Apr 27 2007 12:57PM) -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAQ A fast-moving dust storm struck northern Saudi A ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/3895 Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-44 NEW TIME FOR NASA SCIENCE UPDATE TO DISCUSS NEW HORIZONS DATA WASHINGTON - A NASA Science Update to discuss new views of the Jupiter system has moved to 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 1. The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft is returning these images as it flies past the solar system's largest planet during the ...Continue Reading

To: Nasa Reports NASA SimLabs News VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2http://www.simlabs.arc.nasa.gov/newsletter/news.html   April 2007   TABLE OF CONTENTS   If you are receiving this newsletter for the first time, SimLabs News is a quarterly publication reviewing current projects at the NASA Ames Simulation Laboratories (SimLabs). NASA SimLabs is comprised of three unique Flight Simulators, an Air Traffic Control radar simulator and a high fidelity Air Traffic Control Tower simulator. The facilities support governm ...Continue Reading

NASA Science News for April 27, 2007 Lightning is more than just heat and light: it's a chemical factory that produces a natural pollutant called "NOx" that may affect both local air quality and global climate. NASA scientists are developing new ways to monitor lightning NOx from Earth orbit. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/27apr_nox.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a ...Continue Reading

April 27, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 STATUS REPORT: SS07-23 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-23 HOUSTON - The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams began the week with a couple light duty days after the ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *April 27, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: April 27, 2007 03:30 pm EDT* *Spot the Celestial Snake*South of Saturn, a little group of five or six stars marks the head of Hydra the Water Snake.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Stephen Hawking Flies Weightless Aboard Jet * *Space Station Astronaut to Ret ...Continue Reading

April 27, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 RELEASE: 07-94 NASA SCIENCE STATEMENT ON STEPHEN HAWKING'S ZERO GRAVITY FLIGHT WASHINGTON - The following is a statement from Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington, regarding renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's flight aboard Zero Gravity Corporation's Boeing 727. "Stephen Hawking's flight to experience zero gravity is exciting. I can say from flying hundreds of parabol ...Continue Reading

Friday, April 27, 2007 Sex Fattens Female Ticks to 100 Times Normal Size After mating, one species of female tick balloons to a body-bursting 100 times its original size. Dusty Document Reveals First European Voyage up Delaware River The nearly four-century-old document pinpoints the date Europeans first voyaged up the waterway. ...Continue Reading

April 27, 2007 David E. Steitz/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 Alan Hayes Volanz Aerospace, Inc., Owings, Md. 202-498-6804 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-43 Corrected NASA'S CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE FOR IMPROVED ASTRONAUT GLOVES SET WASHINGTON - On Wednesday and Thursday, May 2-3, teams from around the nation will compete for a total of $250,000 from NASA for an improved astronaut glove design. The Astronaut Glove Challenge, one of NASA's seven Centennial Challenges, will take place at the New Eng ...Continue Reading

April 27, 2007 David E. Steitz/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 Alan Hayes Volanz Aerospace, Inc., Owings, Md. 202-498-6804 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-43 NASA'S CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE FOR IMPROVED ASTRONAUT GLOVES SET WASHINGTON - On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2-3, teams from around the nation will compete for a total of $250,000 from NASA for an improved astronaut glove design. The Astronaut Glove Challenge, one of NASA's seven Centennial Challenges, will take place at the New England Air M ...Continue Reading