July 3rd 2008 PST
July 2, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Laura Layton Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8170 laura.a.layton@nasa.gov Robert Sanders University of California, Berkeley 501-643-6998 rsanders@berkeley.edu RELEASE: 08-165 STEREO CREATES FIRST IMAGES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S INVISIBLE FRONTIER GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the sol ...Continue Reading
July 3rd 2008 PST
July 2, 2008 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Prucey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.l.prucey@nasa.gov Katherine Martin Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2406 katherine.martin@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-151 NASA CONSIDERS DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT-LED SATELLITE INITIATIVE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA is considering the development of a university-based, student-led satellite development initiative to begin passing the space ex ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2008 PST
July 2, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-130 SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS, BRIEFING ON TAP FOR NASA TV HOUSTON -- Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex July 10 and 15, with coverage of both planned for NASA Television. Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2008 PST
July 1, 2008 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-128 NASA TO REVEAL NEW DISCOVERIES FROM MERCURY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference Thursday, July 3, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss analysis of data from the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft's flyby of Mercury earlie ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2008 PST
July 1, 2008 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-129 NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing Wednesday, July 30, at 1 p.m. CDT, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and an American spaceflight participant. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, a ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2008 PST
The following sections were updated since 30 June 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN AFGHANISTAN In late June 2008, a dust storm formed over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14916 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 29 2008 (Posted on Jun 30 2008 3:59PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA "Dry" thunderstorms triggered hundreds of fires in California on the first day of summer 20 ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2008 PST
There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:19:06 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA June 30, 2008 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 Report #H08-162 ASTRONAUT JAMES REILLY LEAVES NASA HOUSTON -- Veteran space shuttle astronaut James Reil ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2008 PST
The NASA History Division is saddened to note the passing of Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. on Saturday, June 28. During a very distinguished career, Dr. Seamans served as the NASA Associate and Deputy Administrator during much of the 1960s. He wrote two books that the NASA History Division published, an autobiography and a managerial account of the Apollo program. Please see http://history.nasa.gov/Biographies/seamans.html for links to these two publications, a link to the NASA Administrator's statement on Dr. Seamans ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2008 PST
The following sections were updated since 27 June 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN AFGHANISTAN On June 27, 2008, a dust storm formed over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14915 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 27 2008 (Posted on Jun 30 2008 1:39PM) -- FIRE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN RUSSIA Over 15,000 hectares of forest were on fire in eastern Russia in mid- to late June 2008. This ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2008 PST
June 30, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.r.mould@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-164 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF HOPKINS LEAVING NASA WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief of Strategic Communications Robert Hopkins announced Monday that he will be leaving the agency for a position in the private sector. Hopkins served as a senior adviser to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and as assistant administrator for the recently established Office of Communications Planning before assuming the strategic communi ...Continue Reading
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