LiveScience.com Tuesday, October 3, 2006 VIDEO: Amazing Bird Radar Bird-brains keep pace with GPS systems by flying Earth’s magnetic field. Maine Quake Causes Dramatic Drop in Well Water Level A minor earthquake that shook parts of Maine at 8:07 p.m. local time yesterday caused water to drop 2.5 feet at a U.S. Geological Survey monitoring well. Object Off Alaska Coast May Be WWII Sub Underwater sonar images of a black shape could b ...Continue Reading

Oct. 3, 2006 Marny Skora Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-3315/757-344-6111 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-056 NASA SELECTS MARYLAND FIRM FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH SUPPORT NASA has selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. The cost plus award fee, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a maximum value of approxi ...Continue Reading

Oct. 3, 2006 Dean Acosta/David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898/1400 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-053 NASA AWARDS APPLIED PHYSICS LAB R&D, ENGINEERING CONTRACT NASA announced Tuesday it has entered into a five-year contract with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL), Laurel, Md., which will allow for procurement up to $750 million in services for aerospace research, development and engineering in support of the agency's mission. Under this contract, APL will provide NASA with expertise in ...Continue Reading

Pre-order Year in Space Calendar and Viewing Alerts for ISS If you have trouble viewing this email, click here. What’s that in the sky? A plane? A shooting star? No, it’s the bigger and brighter International Space Station, now equipped with the largest solar panels ever taken to space.Nobody knows how much brighter it will be, but there’s a good chance that it could be brighter than magnitude -3, approaching the glow of Venus, the brightest ...Continue Reading

Oct. 3, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Edward Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8955 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-156 NASA NEWS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER NASA hosts a news briefing Tuesday at 3 P.M. EDT with Dr. John C. Mather, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Mather is the first NASA civil servant scientist to be awarded this prestigious honor. The briefing will be in the auditorium ...Continue Reading

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SPACE.com Update for October 2, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *October 2, 2006*   *TOP STORY* *posted: October 2, 2006 04:01 pm EDT* *Galactic Birth Control: Unknown Factor Prevents Star Formation*Stars in large galaxies formed much ...Continue Reading

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006 SCIENCE UPDATE ON NASA TV Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1 p.m. EDT, auditorium. NASA is hosting a science update to discuss the Hubble Space Telescope's discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars. The news conference will air live on NASA TV. For details visit, http://www.nasa.gov/ntv OCTOBER IS ENERGY AWARENESS MONTH Contact: Wayne Thalasinos 358-3811. This year's slogan, "Energy indep ...Continue Reading

Oct. 2, 2006 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0669 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-054 NASA AWARDS SPACE PROGRAM OPERATIONS CONTRACT NASA has awarded a letter contract valued at $1.1 billion for the first six months to United Space Alliance (USA), LLC, of Houston. When definitized, it will result in a four-year contract through Sept. 30, 2010, to cover Space Shuttle Program operations. Efforts under the Space Program Operations Contract include ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Monday, October 2, 2006 VIDEO: Bird Radar Bird-brains keep pace with GPS systems by flying Earth’s magnetic field. Small Digital Camera Makes Night-Vision Images A new single-pixel digital camera in the works would not only takes up less power and space, but might also take night-vision pictures as well. Simple Eye Test Could Spot Alzheimer's Early On Scanning the eyes with lasers could help detect signs of Alzheimer's ...Continue Reading