October 5th 2006 PST
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 MARS ROVER NEWS BRIEFING ON NASA TV Date/Time/Location: Friday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m. EDT, auditorium During this news conference, NASA will present stunning images returned by the agency's "Opportunity" rover from the Victoria crater on Mars. The briefing will air live on NASA HQ Channel 31 and on the Web. QUARTERLY FARE SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTION Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. - noon and 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., west ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 4, 2006 Michael Braukus/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/2087 Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-057 ARES I CREW LAUNCH VEHICLE FIRST STAGE CONTRACT MODIFICATION NASA is extending a previous contract action with ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, to continue design and development of the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The extension has a maximum value of $35 million. Ares I is the crew launch vehicle that will tran ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 4, 2006 David E. Steitz/Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730/1761 RELEASE: 06-325 NASA SELECTS 120 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROJECTS NASA has selected 120 proposals for negotiation of phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $72 million. The contracts will be awarded to 103 small high technology firms in 27 states. The program is a competitive, three-phase award system. It provi ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
The following sections were updated since 03 October 2006. -- FIRE (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- FIRES ON BORNEO AND SUMATRA Smoke from agricultural and forest fires burning on Sumatra and Borneo in late September and early October 2006 blanketed a wide region with smoke that interrupted air and highway travel and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13912 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 01 2006 (Posted on Oct 04 2006 11:23AM) FIRES IN MOZAMBIQUE AND TANZAN ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 4, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 RELEASE: 06-326 HUBBLE FINDS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS FAR ACROSS GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubb ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PST
SPACE.com Update for October 4, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 4, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: October 4, 2006 11:05 am EDT* *Wide Range of Rocket Tech for Civilian Spaceflight*A new era of human spaceflight is upon is, a ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PST
The following sections were updated since 02 October 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE OVER EASTERN CHINA A thick band of haze hung over eastern China in mid-September 2006. The haze likely resulted from urban and industrial pollution, agricultural fires, and weather patterns that trapped the pollutants in the region. Thick haze returned to the region in early October. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13905 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 02 2006 (Posted on Oct 02 200 ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PST
Oct. 4, 2006 Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/1237 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-154 NASA ANNOUNCES PUBLIC MEETING FOR PROPOSED MARS MISSION NASA officials will be available Tuesday, Oct. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. EDT to exchange information and receive public comments about the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Mars Science Laboratory mission. The meeting will be at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Congressional 'A' Conference Room, 400 New Jersey Ave NW, Wa ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PST
NASA Science News for October 3, 2006 The most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century happened in Alaska at a volcano named Novarupta. Because Novarupta was located so near the Arctic, it did some curious things to Earth's climate. Almost a century after the blast, researchers are beginning to understand what happened. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/03oct_novarupta.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_r ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PST
SPACE.com Update for October 3, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 3, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: October 3, 2006 05:24 pm EDT* *Mysterious Radio Hiss Blamed on Space Weather*Weather that originates at the Sun, not here on Ea ...Continue Reading
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