The following sections were updated since 30 November 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM NEAR BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA A dust storm, possibly mingled with smoke from nearby fires, clouded the skies over Brisbane, Australia, in late November 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13997 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 30 2006 (Posted on Nov 30 2006 11:59AM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUPER TYPHOON DURIAN Super Typhoon Durian came ashore in the Philippi ...Continue Reading

Starry Night® Times - December 2006 If you have trouble viewing this newsletter, click here. *Welcome again to our monthly newsletter with features on exciting celestial events, product reviews, tips & tricks, and a monthly sky calendar. We hope you enjoy it!* [*]'Tis the Season to be Jolly. Why?Mary Lou Whitehorne explains why there's nowhere to go but up.    [*]Stocking StuffersOf ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for December 1, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 1, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 1, 2006 12:02 pm EDT* *Spot an Unusual Planet Trio*Jupiter, Mercury and Mars are destined in the coming days to crowd into a small spot in the sky, making for a most intriguing gathering very low in the e ...Continue Reading

Nov. 30, 2006 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 RELEASE: C06-064 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND LIBRARY SERVICES GREENBELT, Md. - NASA has selected Library Associates of Maryland, Rockville, Md., to provide comprehensive technical support to the technical libraries at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. The cost-plus-award fee, indefinite d ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 29 November 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the southern side of the Himalayas in late November 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13995 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 28 2006 (Posted on Nov 30 2006 1:27PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Spurred by dry conditions and high winds, wildfires raged through several natural areas in New South Wal ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for November 30, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *November 30, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: November 30, 2006 11:53 am EDT* *New Horizons: Outbound For Jupiter Flyby*BOULDER, Colorado -- Now heading outward on its lengthy trek to tiny Pluto, NASA?s New Horizons spacecraft is on course to zip by giganti ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 28 November 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HAZE OVER EASTERN CHINA Haze clouded the skies over eastern China in late November 2006. Pollution levels reached the highest category in the nation's environmental monitoring index. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13988 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 28 2006 (Posted on Nov 28 2006 10:30AM) DUST OFF NORTHWESTERN AFRICA A plume of dust blew off the northwestern coast of Africa on Novem ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for November 29, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *November 29, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: November 29, 2006 11:11 am EDT* *Heavy-Lift Helicopter Inspires NASA?s New Mars Lander*If NASA?s 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) reaches the red planet?s surface in one piece, the agency will owe a debt of gr ...Continue Reading

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Nov. 29, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 RELEASE: C06-061 NASA AWARDS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AT MARSHALL HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - NASA has awarded a contract to GSC Construction Inc. of Augusta, Ga., to construct a replacement building at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The 480-day contract begins Nov. 28, 2006, with a value of $26.3 million. It is a firm fixed-price contract. The procure ...Continue Reading