October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 4, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-158 NASA SPACE STATION COMMANDER, CREW TO TAKE A SHORT TRIP The International Space Station's residents will take a brief ride around their home on Tuesday, Oct. 10, and NASA TV will provide live coverage of the short journey. Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter will shut down vi ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 3, 2006 Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/1237 Dewayne Washington/Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040/7745 RELEASE: 06-327 NASA SCIENTIST JOHN C. MATHER WINS 2006 NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE The Nobel Prize Committee announced Tuesday that NASA scientist and Goddard Fellow Dr. John C. Mather is this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Mather is currently serving as senior project scientist for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope program. ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
SPACE.com Update for October 5, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold} Â * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 5, 2006* Â *TOP STORY* *posted: October 5, 2006 11:17 am EDT*Â *Shadows and Silhouettes: Looking for Transits*On November 8, Mercury will transit the Sun. From Earth, weÂ’ll ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 5, 2006 Debbie V. Nguyen Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 RELEASE: 06-328 NASA SEEKS UNDERGRADS TO EXPERIMENT IN LUNAR AND ZERO GRAVITY NASA is calling on college undergraduates interested in performing reduced gravity experiments onboard the agency's "Weightless Wonder" aircraft to submit their proposals by Monday, Oct. 30. The Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, has given u ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 MARS ROVER NEWS BRIEFING ON NASA TV Date/Time/Location: Friday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m. EDT, auditorium During this news conference, NASA will present stunning images returned by the agency's "Opportunity" rover from the Victoria crater on Mars. The briefing will air live on NASA HQ Channel 31 and on the Web. QUARTERLY FARE SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTION Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. - noon and 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., west ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 4, 2006 Michael Braukus/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/2087 Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-057 ARES I CREW LAUNCH VEHICLE FIRST STAGE CONTRACT MODIFICATION NASA is extending a previous contract action with ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, to continue design and development of the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The extension has a maximum value of $35 million. Ares I is the crew launch vehicle that will tran ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 4, 2006 David E. Steitz/Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730/1761 RELEASE: 06-325 NASA SELECTS 120 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROJECTS NASA has selected 120 proposals for negotiation of phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $72 million. The contracts will be awarded to 103 small high technology firms in 27 states. The program is a competitive, three-phase award system. It provi ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 03 October 2006. -- FIRE (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- FIRES ON BORNEO AND SUMATRA Smoke from agricultural and forest fires burning on Sumatra and Borneo in late September and early October 2006 blanketed a wide region with smoke that interrupted air and highway travel and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13912 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 01 2006 (Posted on Oct 04 2006 11:23AM) FIRES IN MOZAMBIQUE AND TANZAN ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PDT
Oct. 4, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 RELEASE: 06-326 HUBBLE FINDS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS FAR ACROSS GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubb ...Continue Reading
October 4th 2006 PDT
SPACE.com Update for October 4, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold} Â * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 4, 2006* Â *TOP STORY* *posted: October 4, 2006 11:05 am EDT*Â *Wide Range of Rocket Tech for Civilian Spaceflight*A new era of human spaceflight is upon is, and its shapers say it ...Continue Reading
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