May 3, 2007 David E. Steitz/Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730/4997 Alan Hayes Volanz Aerospace, Inc., Owings, Md. 202-498-6804 RELEASE: 07-101 PETER HOMER WINS NASA'S CHALLENGE FOR IMPROVED ASTRONAUT GLOVES WASHINGTON - On Thursday, May 3, Peter Homer of Southwest Harbor, Maine, won $200,000 from NASA for his entry in the Astronaut Glove Challenge. The competition was one of NASA's seven Centennial Challenges and took place May 2-3 at the New England Air Museum at Bradley Internation ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *May 3, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: May 3, 2007 07:22 pm EDT* *Surprise Slosh! Mercury's Core is Liquid*A new finding resolves a decades-long mystery.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Very Light Jets: Affordable to Fly and Maybe to Buy * *UP Aerospace Launch: A Giant Candle for Closure *  *&A ...Continue Reading

Thursday, May 3, 2007 Road Trip: America’s Most Paved Places New method calculates space between roads across country. Astronauts Get a Tip from Hibernating Bears Bears lose no muscle during hibernation. The finding could help spacefarers. Study: Doing Good Makes You Feel Goo ...Continue Reading

May 3, 2007 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 RELEASE: 07-100 VETERAN ASTRONAUT WALTER SCHIRRA DIES LA JOLLA, Calif. - Pioneering astronaut Walter "Wally" Schirra, the only man who flew in all three of America's first human space projects - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo - died Wednesday night. He was 84. Schirra's family reported he died of natural causes. Schirra was one of America's original seven astronauts, selected in 1959, and was commander of the first crew to fly into space aboa ...Continue Reading

May 3, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-99 NASA ASSIGNS WASHINGTON, D.C., NATIVE TO UPCOMING SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON - NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Benjamin Alvin Drew will join the crew of the STS-118 space shuttle mission, targeted for launch Aug. 9. Drew, born in Washington, will take a seat that opened when astronaut Clayton Anderson was moved to shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 flight, which is targete ...Continue Reading

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May 2, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-97 NASA SUPPORTS TRAIN-DERAILMENT RECOVERY IN ALABAMA WASHINGTON - Officials from NASA and ATK Launch Systems, Edina, Minn., are assisting the Federal Railroad Administration during its investigation of a train derailment Wednesday morning near Pennington, Ala. The train was carrying space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor segments from the ATK Launch Systems manufacturing ...Continue Reading

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Pet Food Deaths Baffle Scientists Toxicologists and veterinary scientists can't figure out what, exactly is killing the animals. 10x Faster Eye Scanner Could Help Prevent Blindness New 3-D laser device to improve diagnoses of eye diseases. Scientists, Bush Clash over Endangered Species Act ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *May 2, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: May 2, 2007 04:26 pm EDT* *Japan Prepares Space Station's Largest Laboratory for Flight*Pieces of the largest laboratory to launch towards the International Space Station (ISS) are coming together and Japan couldn’t be happier.Re ...Continue Reading

May 2, 2007 Grey Hauatluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-45 NASA BRIEFING AT FULL-SIZED JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE MODEL WASHINGTON - Media are invited to a briefing about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Thursday, May 10 from 10-11 a.m. EDT. Attendees will have an opportunity to see a full-scale model of NASA's next-generation space telescope and examine its hexagonal mirror and five-layer sunshield. The briefing will take place next to the telescope model on display at the N ...Continue Reading