November 1st 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Tuesday, October 31, 2006 New Theory on What Got the Oracle of Delphi High A simple cocktail of gases could have induced the psychic trances that the Pythia used to channel the gods and dish out their advice. World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab The world's first artificial liver has been grown from stem cells by British scientists. The resulting "mini-liver" is the size of a small coin. Ghost Photos: A C ...Continue Reading
November 1st 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 30 October 2006. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN PORTUGAL Portugal and western Spain were inundated with floods after several days of heavy rain at the end of October 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13947 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 27 2006 (Posted on Oct 30 2006 8:14AM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- SUPER TYPHOON CIMARON Super Typhoon Cimaron struck the northernmost large island in the Philippines, Luzon, o ...Continue Reading
November 1st 2006 PDT
Space Weather News for Oct. 31, 2006 http://spaceweather.com SPOOKY ASTRONOMY: Today is a date of astronomical interest: it's a cross-quarter date, midway between an equinox and a solstice. There are four cross-quarter dates throughout the year, and each is a minor holiday. One is Groundhog Day (Feb. 2nd), another is May Day (May 1st), the third is Lammas Day (Aug. 1st), and the fourth ... ? Happy Halloween! SUNSPOT 921: Sunspot 921, just a speck two days ago, is ballooning into a planet-sized behemoth. It is too s ...Continue Reading
November 1st 2006 PDT
Dear Colleagues: In celebration of NASA's upcoming 50th anniversary, scholarly histories of NASA's activities in the scientific exploration of Earth and space are solicited by this History of the Scientific Exploration of Earth and Space (HSEES) program element. The International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-1958 marked the beginning of the space age and the birth of NASA; it ushered in a half-century of unprecedented achievement in our scientific exploration of Earth and space. The concurrence of the International ...Continue Reading
November 1st 2006 PDT
Dear Colleagues: This job at NIH was posted today at USA jobs (summary below, go to _www.usajobs.gov_ and search for "Historian-OD" for full announcement). Please pass to anyone interested. 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_ ********************* Historian-OD JOB ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: OD-07-14655 ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2006 PDT
SPACE.com Update for October 31, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 31, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: October 31, 2006 11:33 am EDT* *Hubble Saved: NASA Approves Shuttle Flight to Service Space Telescope*NASA announced Tuesday tha ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2006 PDT
Oct. 31, 2006 Allard Beutel/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769/1726 Dewayne Washington/Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040/7745 James Hartsfield/Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 06-343 NASA APPROVES MISSION AND NAMES CREW FOR RETURN TO HUBBLE Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013. NASA Administrat ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2006 PDT
Oct. 30, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 RELEASE: 06-342 NASA ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY PROGRAM SELECTIONS NASA Monday selected concept studies for missions that would return a sample of an enigmatic asteroid, probe the chemistry of Venus' atmosphere and reveal the interior structure and history of the Earth's moon. Also selected for further study are three missions of opportunity that would make new use of two NASA spacecraft that have completed their primary objectives. &q ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2006 PDT
Oct. 30, 2006 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-058 NASA AWARDS GODDARD MISSION ASSURANCE SERVICES CONTRACT NASA has selected SRS Technologies, Newport Beach, Calif., for award of a Mission Assurance Services Contract. This is a five-year cost-plus-award fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded under the Small Business Set-Aside Program with a maximum value of $75 million. ...Continue Reading
October 31st 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Monday, October 30, 2006 The Astronomy of Halloween Halloween is the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, the last of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar. Big Birds Reveal How Dinosaur Walked Scientists studying modern emus believe they have solved the mystery of why some predatory dinosaurs did a funny cross-step as they walked. Study: Soccer Referees Not Always Fair Disgruntled soccer f ...Continue Reading
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