March 30th 2007 PDT
March 30, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 RELEASE: 07-79 NASA ANNOUNCES FIRST LICHTEN INTERNSHIP AWARD WINNER WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the American Helicopter Society International (AHS), selected Eric Greenwood II from the University of Maryland, University Park, as its first NASA AHS Lichten Internship Award winner. Greenwood was selected based on his paper "Helicopter External Noise Radiation in Turning Flight: Theor ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-4934 STATUS REPORT: SS07-15 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-15 HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew of the International Space Station continued preparations for the April arrival of a new station crew by boarding their Soyuz TMA-9 craft and taking a 24-minute flight from one station docking port to another. Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin guided the Soyuz away from the Earth-f ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/0668 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-16 NASA SELECTS FIRMS FOR SEWP IV CONTRACTS WASHINGTON - NASA has awarded 45 commercial, fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts to 37 vendors under the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV (SEWP IV). The principal purpose of the SEWP IV contracts is to provide customers with state-of-the-art com ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
NASA Science News for March 29, 2007 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed some spectacular Northern Lights on the planet Jupiter. The data may help researchers solve the mysteries of the biggest auroras in the solar system. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/29mar_bigauroras.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-78 NASA ASTRONAUT TO RUN BOSTON MARATHON IN SPACE WASHINGTON - NASA astronaut Suni Williams will go faster than anyone has ever gone in the Boston Marathon. She will run the famed race in April as an official entrant from 210 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station. This will be the first time an astronaut in space will be an official participant in a mar ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Study Reveals Why We Get Distracted So Easily Distractions are processed by the brain more quickly than things we try to concentrate on. Charge: Carbon Dioxide Hogs Global Warming Stage There are other chemical culprits causing climate change, and scientists now urge more attention be paid to them. Contro ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *March 29, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: March 29, 2007 11:43 am EDT* *At Home in ‘Rocco’s Lab’*Virginia Woolf once famously said, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." It might as accurately be said that a scientist must have ...Continue Reading
March 28th 2007 PDT
Mar. 28, 2007 David. E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-15 NASA EXTENDS JOHNSON CENTER OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT HOUSTON - NASA has awarded a $30.4 million extension of the Center Operations Support Services (COSS) Contract for Johnson Space Center to Computer Sciences Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas. The contract, which begins April 1, has a base period of six months followed by five one-month options. It is an exten ...Continue Reading
March 28th 2007 PDT
NASA Science News for March 28, 2007 The landing site is unknown, the rockets are still on the drawing board, and some of the astronauts haven't even been born yet. Nevertheless, NASA's journey to Mars has already begun. The first steps are being taken onboard the International Space Station. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/28mar_firststeps.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a fr ...Continue Reading
March 28th 2007 PDT
The following sections were updated since 27 March 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN NORTHERN CHINA A dust storm struck northwestern China, not far from the Mongolian border, on March 24, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14187 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 24 2007 (Posted on Mar 28 2007 1:19PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN MYANMAR Numerous fires were burning in Myanmar and surrounding countries throughout March 2007, when the ...Continue Reading
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