Starry Night® Times - February 2007 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!* [*]*Breaking News: Sky and Telescope Reports on Bluestar*"Once you use the BlueStar you won't go back to wired astronomy again."  &nb ...Continue Reading

Jan. 31, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-03 NASA AWARDS MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT GREENBELT, Md. - NASA has selected Bastion Technologies, Inc. to provide mechanical systems engineering support for programs and projects at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. This is a cost-plus award fee, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a min ...Continue Reading

Jan. 31, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Marny Skora Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-3315/344-6111 Kevin Crossett Jamestown 2007 757-253-4534/848-3361 Elizabeth S. Kostelny Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Richmond, Va. 804-648-1889, ext. 306 RELEASE: 07-17 NASA TO FLY HISTORIC JAMESTOWN ARTIFACT, MEMENTOS ON SPACE SHUTTLE HAMPTON, Va. - To honor early American explorers, NASA will fly into space four coins and a nearly 400-year-old artifact fro ...Continue Reading

Jan. 31, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington Phone: 202-358-5241 RELEASE: 07-18 NASA ANNOUNCES AERONAUTICS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has amended its NASA Research Announcement to solicit additional research proposals. The "Research Opportunities in Aeronautics" announcement solicits research in several new topic areas for the Intelligent Flight Deck Technology Project, Subsonic Rotary Wing Project and the Supersonics Project. The ...Continue Reading

Jan. 31, 2007 David Mould/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1898/1600 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-015 ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATORS DISCUSS BUDGET DETAILS WASHINGTON - After NASA Administrator Michael Griffin briefs the media about the agency's Fiscal Year 2008 budget at 1 p.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 5, the agency's mission directorate associate administrators will be available by telephone to discuss the proposal's impact on their specific areas. The teleconferences will start no earlier than 2:30 p.m. The current ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Geologists Watch as African Continent is Torn Apart It's liable to be a long, slow investigation as seismic activity parts the Red Sea and changes the map of Africa forever. White House Accused of Misleading Public on Global Warming The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for January 30, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *January 30, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: January 30, 2007 11:39 am EDT* *Neptune May Have Thousands of Escorts*Neptune may be escorted in its orbit by thousands of asteroid-like objects, perhaps more than exist in the entire asteroid belt.Read More ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 29 January 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER TURKMENISTAN On January 29, 2007, a dust storm blew northward across Turkmenistan toward Uzbekistan. At least part of the storm originated in northern Iran and Afghanistan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14098 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 29 2007 (Posted on Jan 30 2007 11:11AM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- THUNDERSTORM OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN A thunders ...Continue Reading

Jan. 30, 2007 David Mould/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1898/1600 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-014 NASA ANNOUNCES FY 08 BUDGET PRESS CONFERENCE WASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin briefs the media about the agency's Fiscal Year 2008 budget at 1 p.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 5. The press briefing is in NASA's main auditorium located at 300 E Street S.W. in Washington. Griffin will be joined by Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and the agency's associate administrators from the Space Operations, Scie ...Continue Reading

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