May 17th 2007 PDT
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *May 16, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: May 16, 2007 03:21 pm EDT* *More Nations Crave Independent Satellite Navigation Systems*SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. -- Europe is not the only focus of efforts to build a rival to GPS, the U.S. constellation of navigation satellites. Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Recy ...Continue Reading
May 17th 2007 PDT
Today's Top News Wednesday May 16, 2007 Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered Finds suggest the Antarctic deep sea is cradle of Earth's marine life. Sick Future: As Species Disappear, Human Disease May Spike We Knew It! Psychics Back at Work After Philly Crackdown The Good Thing About Herpes California-Sized Area of Ice Melts in Antarctica advertisement Top Features What's Your Environmental Footprint? Read More Top 10 Mysterious Diseases Read More Gallery: Backy ...Continue Reading
May 17th 2007 PDT
The following sections were updated since 15 May 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER SYRIA, TURKEY, AND IRAQ On May 13, 2007, a dust storm formed over the borders of Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14264 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 13 2007 (Posted on May 14 2007 4:38PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ ...Continue Reading
May 17th 2007 PDT
May 16, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-56 NASA SETS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS HOUSTON - NASA will preview a pair of International Space Station spacewalks during a briefing at 1 p.m. CDT Wednesday, May 23. The briefing from Johnson Space Center, Houston, will air live on NASA Television. Questions will be taken from media at participating NASA sites. Reporters should call their preferred ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
The following sections were updated since 14 May 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM NEAR CAPE VERDE On May 12, 2007, a dust plume blew off the west coast of Africa near Cape Verde. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14263 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 12 2007 (Posted on May 14 2007 8:07AM) -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES Rivers throughout the Midwestern United States rose to dangerous levels under the onslaught ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
May 15, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1726 Donna Weaver/Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4493/4514 RELEASE: 07-114 ASTRONOMERS FIND RING OF DARK MATTER WITH HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WASHINGTON - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two galaxy clusters. Dark matter makes up most of the universe's material. Ordinary matter, which ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
The message below is forwarded from Mike Gorn FYI. Steve Dick Dr. Steven J. Dick NASA Chief Historian Director, NASA History Division Office of External Relations NASA Headquarters 300 E Street SW Washington, D.C. 20546-0001 202 358 0383 (PH) 202 358 2866 (Fax) steven.j.dick@nasa.gov ________________ REQUEST FOR HISTORY ARTICLES: INTERNATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION ASSOCIATION JOURNAL I am writing as chair of the history committee for the Journal of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA), a profes ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
May 15, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center 321-867-2468 RELEASE: 07-116 NASA'S SHUTTLE ATLANTIS ROLLS BACK OUT TO LAUNCH PAD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis is back at its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Teams are preparing Atlantis for its mission, STS-117, to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for June 8. Atlantis rolled out of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:02 a.m. EDT Tuesday on a massiv ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
May 11, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 STATUS REPORT: SS07-25 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-25 A new cargo freighter launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 10:25 p.m. CDT Friday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard. The ISS Progress 25 unpiloted cargo carrier is scheduled to dock with the station Tuesday ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2007 PDT
May 15, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1726 Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 RELEASE: 07-115 NASA FINDS VAST REGIONS OF WEST ANTARCTICA MELTED IN RECENT PAST WASHINGTON - A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. This was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA's QuikScat satellite and ...Continue Reading
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