Oct. 11, 2007 Jason Sharp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5213 jason.s.sharp@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-222 BRUNER NAMED HEAD OF LEGISLATIVE AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS WASHINGTON - NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale on Thursday announced the appointment of Bill Bruner as assistant administrator for legislative and intergovernmental affairs. Bruner has served as acting assistant administrator for the office since June. The office of legislative affairs and intergovernmental affairs develops and implements the ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2007 Edward Goldstein Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4581 edward.s.goldstein@nasa.gov Becky Haberacker Smithsonian Institution 202-633-5183 haberackerb@si.edu RELEASE: 07-223 NASA TO BE THE FEATURED AGENCY IN 2008 SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL WASHINGTON - NASA and the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage are partnering for the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The festival showcasing NASA will run on the National Mall from June 25 to July 6, 2008. NASA will be o ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2007 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-52 NASA SELECTS 120 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROJECTS WASHINGTON - NASA has selected 120 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, known as SBIR. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $72 million. NASA will award the contracts to 102 small high technology firms in 27 states. NASA's Innovative Partnerships Pr ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-223 NASA ANNOUNCES AERONAUTICS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has amended its NASA Research Announcement to solicit research proposals that address the "Integration of Advanced Concepts and Vehicles into the Next Generation Air Transportation System," known as NextGen. The focus of the research effort is to conduct a study that addresses the is ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 10 October 2007. -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- RECORD SEA ICE MINIMUM Each year in mid-September, the annual sea ice pack in the Arctic Ocean reaches a minimum before temperatures turn and new ice begins to form. In 2007, Arctic sea ice reached a new record low. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14571 *** AMSR-E(Aqua) image from Sep 16 2007 (Posted on Oct 11 2007 1:58PM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Oct. 11, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-129 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS CONFERENCE ON STATUS OF NEXT SHUTTLE LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers have scheduled a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., no earlier than 3 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 16, to discuss the status of the upcoming space shuttle mission. The news conference will begin after ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 October 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER THE PERSIAN GULF Dust blew off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on October 10, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14570 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 10 2007 (Posted on Oct 10 2007 11:35AM) HAZE OFF THE U.S. EAST COAST Thick haze extended off the U.S. East Coast on October 8, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14569 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from ...Continue Reading

Oct. 10, 2007 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1400 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-220 NASA WEB FEATURE WINS DESIGN AWARD FROM ADOBE WASHINGTON - NASA's Web site received a significant multimedia award this week when Adobe Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., honored the interactive International Space Station Reference Guide with a 2007 Max Award. "The NASA Web team continually is finding new and innovative ways of making NASA more accessible to the world," said Ron Ticker, NASA's manage ...Continue Reading

Oct. 9, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 michael.buckley@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 07-221 NASA SPACECRAFT SEES CHANGES IN JUPITER SYSTEM LAUREL, Md. - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft provided a new bird's-eye view of the dynamic Jupiter system as it traveled through the planet's orbit on Feb. 28. New Horizons used Jupiter's gravity to boost its speed and shave three years off ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 05 October 2007. -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PLUME FROM KARYMSKY Continuing a pattern of intermittent activity, Karymsky Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula released a plume on October 6, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14566 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 06 2007 (Posted on Oct 08 2007 1:13PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://na ...Continue Reading