March 20th 2007 PDT
Mar. 20, 2007 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 CONTRACT RELEASE: 07-11 NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AWARDS HUMAN CAPITAL CONTRACT HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has awarded Will Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., a contract to provide administrative and technical support services at the center. The contract begins April 1, 2007, with a one-year base period followed by four one-year op ...Continue Reading
March 20th 2007 PDT
March 20, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 Jonas Dino Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5612 RELEASE: 07-70 NASA SCIENTISTS AND TEACHERS TO STUDY MARS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT Moffett Field, Calif. - A passionate teacher can make any subject come alive for students, and NASA is helping fuel that passion. On March 25-30, 2007, NASA's Spaceward Bound project at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will take a team of NASA scientists a ...Continue Reading
March 20th 2007 PDT
Mar. 20, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-31 NASA SETS BRIEFINGS ON STATION CREW CHANGE, SOYUZ MOVE HOUSTON - NASA will hold a pair of media briefings on Tuesday, March 27, to preview the upcoming exchange of crews aboard the International Space Station. At 1 p.m. CDT, NASA will preview the upcoming Expedition 15 mission. A second briefing, set to begin at 2 p.m., will review the work done during th ...Continue Reading
March 20th 2007 PDT
LiveScience.com Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Aging Muscles Become Hard of Hearing As people age, neurons have to yell at the muscles to whip them into action, according to a small new study. Speed Reading Just a Gimmick A tiny visual window only lets us see 8 to 10 letters at a time, new research shows. Brain Can Learn Fear By Seeing Others? Fears The brain learns fears first-hand or by watching others? emotional responses in similar ways, a new study finds. Pig Journeys Rev ...Continue Reading
March 20th 2007 PDT
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March 19th 2007 PDT
LiveScience.com Monday, March 19, 2007 Playing Music Makes You Smart Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech. Brainiacs Succeed in Mapping 248-Dimensional Object That high school math problem with a page-long solution was a cakewalk compared to a recent mathematics answer that would ink an area the size of Manhattan if written out in small print. Some ...Continue Reading
March 19th 2007 PDT
The following sections were updated since 16 March 2007. -- STORM (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- TORNADOES IN ALABAMA AND GEORGIA A massive tornado tore through Enterprise, Alabama, on March 1, 2007, leaving a swath of devastation about 180 meters (200 yards) wide through the small city. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14170 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Mar 08 2007 (Posted on Mar 15 2007 2:06PM) CYCLONE INDLALA On March 14, 2007, storm-weary Madagascar braced for its fourth land-falling tropi ...Continue Reading
March 19th 2007 PDT
Mar. 19, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-30 NASA ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCE ON SHUTTLE REPAIR WORK WASHINGTON - NASA will host a media teleconference no earlier than 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21 to discuss the status of space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission, STS-117. The teleconference follows a meeting to review options to repair the shuttle's external fuel tank, which was damaged Feb. 26 during a h ...Continue Reading
March 19th 2007 PDT
Mar. 19, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 Sallie A. Keith Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-5795 Kelly O. Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-5111 RELEASE: 07-69 NASA GLENN TO TEST ORION CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLE CLEVELAND - NASA's Glenn Research Center will conduct integrated environmental testing of the Orion crew exploration vehicle in the Space Power Facility at the center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The environmental tests are desi ...Continue Reading
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