April 15, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Emily Outen Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022 emily.s.outen@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256 544-7199 Jennifer.J.Morcone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-101 NASA COMPLETES FIRST FULL-SCALE MOTOR TEST FOR ORION SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA has completed the first full-scale rocket motor test for the Constellation Program's Orion spacecraft, a test of a solid rocket ...Continue Reading

April 15, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-020 NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION WATER CONTRACT TO HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International Inc., Windsor Locks, Conn., for water production services aboard the International Space Station. The firm fixed-price contract has a potential value of $65 million and extends through Sept. 30, 2014. Hamilton Sundstrand will prov ...Continue Reading

April 15, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Joan B. Underwood Lockheed Martin, Denver 303-971-7398 joan.b.underwood@lmco.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-079 STEPHEN HAWKING SPEAKS AT NASA 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT WASHINGTON -- On Monday, April 21, Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge will be the featured speaker at a lecture that is part of a series honoring NASA's 50th anniversary. The title of Hawking's lecture is "Why we should go into space. ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 14 April 2008. -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- NEW ACTIVITY ON KILAUEA On March 19, 2008, a small explosion erupted from Kilauea's summit crater. The volcano remained active in April 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14781 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 09 2008 (Posted on Apr 14 2008 7:46AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhaza ...Continue Reading

April 15, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-098 NASA EXTENDS CASSINI'S GRAND TOUR OF SATURN PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years. The historic spacecraft's stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons. Cassini's mission originally had been scheduled ...Continue Reading

April 11, 2008 Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov Marie Guma-Diaz University of Miami, Fla. 305-284-1601 m.gumadiaz@umiami.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-078 NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR VISITS MIAMI FOR FUTURE FORUM WASHINGTON - On Friday, April 18, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will present the keynote address to launch a daylong event at the University of Miami's BankUnited Center celebrating the space agency's 50th birthday. NASA's Miami Future Forum focuses on how s ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 10 April 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN In early April 2008, numerous dust plumes blew off the Libyan coast and over the Mediterranean Sea. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14780 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 09 2008 (Posted on Apr 10 2008 10:10AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalha ...Continue Reading

Listserv subscribers: Some technical problems were resolved after I sent this out on Tuesday so if you had difficulty accessing this site earlier this week, you should now be able to do so. Pardon us for not resolving these technical issues earlier. We are still refining some aspects of this site's search capability so if you have further questions about this, please contact Jane Odom. On an unrelated note, attached is the NASA History Division's calendar year 2007 annual report. It and other previous annual repor ...Continue Reading

April 10, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Sara Hammond University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-1974 shammond@lpl.arizona.edu RELEASE: 08-100 NASA SPACECRAFT FINE TUNES COURSE FOR MARS LANDING PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25th landing on the Red Planet. "This ...Continue Reading

April 10, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-096 NASA EARTH SCIENTIST TO HEAD PROGRAMS OFFICE IN SCIENCE DIRECTORATE WASHINGTON -- Michael R. Luther has been named deputy associate administrator for programs in NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Ed Weiler, associate administrator for the directorate, made the announcement Wednesday. Luther will be responsible for overseeing the safe and successful execution of the dir ...Continue Reading