July 7, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-167 NASA SETS LAUNCH DATES FOR REMAINING SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS HOUSTON -- Following a detailed, integrated assessment, NASA selected target launch dates for the remaining eight space shuttle missions on the current manifest in 2009 and 2010. The manifest includes one flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, seven assembly flights to t ...Continue Reading

July 7, 2008 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-168 COLLEGE STUDENTS DESIGN FUTURE AIRCRAFT IN NASA COMPETITION HAMPTON, Va. -- Sixty-one students from 14 colleges and universities around the globe have imagined what the next generation of airliners and cargo planes may look like. Fourteen teams and two individual students submitted their designs in the a ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 04 July 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER THE RED SEA A dust storm blew off the coast of Sudan and over the Red Sea in early July 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14930 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 04 2008 (Posted on Jul 07 2008 1:53PM) * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14929 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 04 2008 (Posted on Jul 07 2008 1:25PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 03 July 2008. -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY ON MOUNT ETNA Mount Etna released plumes of ash and steam in late June and early July 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14926 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Jun 21 2008 (Posted on Jul 03 2008 3:15PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http://earthobservatory ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 52 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA DEBUTS WEB SITE FOR FIRST ARES TEST FLIGHT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:24:55 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA DEBUTS WEB SITE FOR FIRST ARES TEST FLIGHT July 2, 2008 Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 Daniel Kanigan ...Continue Reading

July 3, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Mike Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 mike.buckley@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 08-166 NASA REVEALS NEW DISCOVERIES FROM MERCURY GREENBELT, Md. -- Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years. Now, analyses of data from the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environmen ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 02 July 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA "Dry" thunderstorms triggered hundreds of fires in California on the first day of summer 2008. These images show dozens of active fires burning in the state. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14925 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 02 2008 (Posted on Jul 03 2008 10:48AM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- CHAITEN VOLCANO ERUPTS Dormant for more than 9,000 years, ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 113 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT 2. SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS, BRIEFING ON TAP FOR NASA TV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:52:41 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT July 1, 2008 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Wash ...Continue Reading

July 2, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison/Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov, bill.j.byerly@nasa.gov Daniel Kanigan Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6849 daniel.n.kanigan@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-131 NASA DEBUTS WEB SITE FOR FIRST ARES TEST FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 01 July 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER THE PERSIAN GULF A dust storm blew through Iraq and Iran, and over the Persian Gulf in early July 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14924 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 02 2008 (Posted on Jul 02 2008 1:46PM) * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14919 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 01 2008 (Posted on Jul 01 2008 11:21AM) -- FIRE (3 updated events, 3 new ...Continue Reading