~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006 FOLLOW ON NASA TELEVISION AND THE WEB. NASA is providing extensive television and Internet coverage of space shuttle Discovery's mission. The NASA television schedule for STS-116 is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html For Web coverage, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle QUARTERLY FARE SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTION Date/Time/Location: Dec. 27, 28 and Jan. 3, 4, 10 , 11, 10 a.m. - noon and 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., ...Continue Reading

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LiveScience.com Monday, December 18, 2006 New Wheat is Totally Sweet Sweet wheat is a hybridized variety of wheat with twice the sugar of its ancestor. It's expected to hit stores two to three years. Picture Perfect: How to Make Blink-Free Holiday Photos To help photographers get the perfect shot, an Australian scientist has calculated the number of photos that need to be taken to ensure at least one blink-free photo. The Art of Deception Revealed The great fake psychics are gr ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 15 December 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the southern side of the Himalayas in late November 2006. Haze remained in the area the following month. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14031 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 11 2006 (Posted on Dec 15 2006 9:17AM) DUST STORM FROM THE BODELE DEPRESSION A dust storm blew out of the Bodele Depression on December 11, 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.g ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for December 18, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 18, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 18, 2006 11:27 am EDT* *Spacewalkers to Help Fold ISS Solar Array*HOUSTON -- Two shuttle astronauts are poised to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) later today in an extra spacewalk aim ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2006 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 Jon Murchinson Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. 650-253-4437 RELEASE: 06-371 NASA AND GOOGLE TO BRING SPACE EXPLORATION DOWN TO EARTH MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human- ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for December 15, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 15, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 15, 2006 04:43 pm EDT* *NASA Weighs ISS Solar Array Plans, Lauds Spacewalk*HOUSTON -- NASA mission managers are weighing plans to address a stubborn solar array left half-exposed above the International ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Friday, December 15, 2006 Big Hawaiian Earthquake Had Surprising Trigger A new fault formed off the northwest coast of Hawaii on Oct. 15 of this year, and now scientists are figuring out what caused the crack and the ensuing 6.7 magnitude earthquake. Warm Fuzzy Feelings Fuel Higher Prices People seem to assign higher value to objects when they're in a friendlier mindset, a new study suggests. Al Gore Urges Scientists to Speak Out on Climate Change Gore said that in orde ...Continue Reading

Dec. 15, 2006 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937/9000 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-190 NASA AMES SCHEDULES BRIEFING TO DISCUSS GOOGLE AGREEMENT MOFFETT FIELD, Calif,. - NASA Ames Research Center hosts a media briefing Monday to discuss a major announcement involving Google, Inc. WHAT: Media briefing announcing details of Space Act Agreement with Google, Inc. WHERE: NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg. N-200, upstairs conference room WHO: S. Pete Worden, director, NASA Ames Resea ...Continue Reading