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

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 that it will go ahead wit ...Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, October 31, 2006 GRIFFIN TO ANNOUNCE HUBBLE MISSION DECISION Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 10 a.m., NASA HQ Channel 31. The administrator will announce the agency's decision on a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope during a meeting with NASA employees at Goddard Space Flight Center. Headquarters employees may watch the event on NASA TV in the auditorium. The program will air on NASA TV and at: http://aquarius.hq.na ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for October 30, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *October 30, 2006*   *TOP STORY* *posted: October 30, 2006 12:55 pm EDT* *Mass Migration: How Stars Move in Crowd*The stellar residents of jam-packed celestial cities employ a traffic system t ...Continue Reading

NASA Science News for October 30, 2006 Researchers are putting the finishing touches on a new life support system for the ISS that seems to come right out of the pages of science fiction. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/30oct_eclss.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=882224F&n=T&l=snglist or send a blank em ...Continue Reading

Oct. 27, 2006 Dean Acosta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1400 Ed Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0697 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-170 NASA SETS HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION DECISION ANNOUNCEMENT NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will announce on Tuesday, Oct. 31, a decision on a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. The announcement is scheduled for 10 a.m. EST during an agency-wide employee meeting from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The event w ...Continue Reading