SPACE.com Update for December 19, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 19, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 19, 2006 11:52 am EDT* *Mission Discovery: Shuttle Astronauts to Leave Space Station Today*HOUSTON -- Seven shuttle astronauts will say their orbital goodbyes to the three-person crew of the International Space Station (ISS) afte ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 18 December 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER THE RED SEA On December 17, 2006, a plume from Saudi Arabia crossed the Red Sea toward Sudan. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14035 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 17 2006 (Posted on Dec 18 2006 2:20PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA Throughout December 2006, bushfires sweeping over Victoria filled the skies with smoke. * http ...Continue Reading

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006 FOLLOW ON NASA TELEVISION AND THE WEB. NASA is providing extensive television and Internet coverage of space shuttle Discovery's mission. The NASA television schedule for STS-116 is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html For Web coverage, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle QUARTERLY FARE SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTION Date/Time/Location: Dec. 27, 28 and Jan. 3, 4, 10 , 11, 10 a.m. - noon and 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., ...Continue Reading

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LiveScience.com Monday, December 18, 2006 New Wheat is Totally Sweet Sweet wheat is a hybridized variety of wheat with twice the sugar of its ancestor. It's expected to hit stores two to three years. Picture Perfect: How to Make Blink-Free Holiday Photos To help photographers get the perfect shot, an Australian scientist has calculated the number of photos that need to be taken to ensure at least one blink-free photo. The Art of Deception Revealed The great fake psychics are gr ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 15 December 2006. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the southern side of the Himalayas in late November 2006. Haze remained in the area the following month. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14031 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 11 2006 (Posted on Dec 15 2006 9:17AM) DUST STORM FROM THE BODELE DEPRESSION A dust storm blew out of the Bodele Depression on December 11, 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.g ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for December 18, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 18, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 18, 2006 11:27 am EDT* *Spacewalkers to Help Fold ISS Solar Array*HOUSTON -- Two shuttle astronauts are poised to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) later today in an extra spacewalk aimed at furling a finicky sol ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2006 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 Jon Murchinson Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. 650-253-4437 RELEASE: 06-371 NASA AND GOOGLE TO BRING SPACE EXPLORATION DOWN TO EARTH MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human- ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for December 15, 2006  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *December 15, 2006*     *TOP STORY* *posted: December 15, 2006 04:43 pm EDT* *NASA Weighs ISS Solar Array Plans, Lauds Spacewalk*HOUSTON -- NASA mission managers are weighing plans to address a stubborn solar array left half-exposed above the International Space Station (ISS) and la ...Continue Reading