August 23rd 2006 PDT
SPACE.com Update for August 22, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *August 22, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: August 22, 2006 11:13 am EDT* *Moon Chemistry Confirms Violent Origin*The European Space Agency's lunar-orbiting craft called SMART ...Continue Reading
August 23rd 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 21 August 2006. -- FLOOD (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- FLOODS IN CAMBODIA Heavy rains pushed the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap to their seasonal highs in August 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13796 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 21 2006 (Posted on Aug 22 2006 1:52PM) FLOODS ACROSS AFRICA'S SAHEL The Sahel region of Africa was about halfway through the rainy season of 2006 when flooding affected people in several countries, including Ethiopi ...Continue Reading
August 23rd 2006 PDT
Aug. 22, 2006 Fred Brown/Al Feinberg Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713/1058 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-136 NASA ASTRONAUTS AVAILABLE FOR LIVE SATELLITE INTERVIEWS NASA astronauts will be available to discuss the next space shuttle mission during live satellite interviews from 6 to 9 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Aug. 27. Astronauts Shannon Walker, Jim Kelly and Mike Fincke will be available from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for these one-on-one interview opportunities. They are available to discus ...Continue Reading
August 23rd 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Tuesday, August 22, 2006 People Judge in the Blink of an Eye Talk about snap judgments! People decide whether another person is trustworthy within a tenth of a second, a new study suggests. Withdrawal Symptoms Come Quickly After Last Cigarette Smokers trying to quit start to feel withdrawal symptoms within the first half hour of quitting. Anesthesia Remains Mysterious It's a staple of modern medicine, but how anesthesia works in the ...Continue Reading
August 23rd 2006 PDT
Aug. 22, 2006 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 RELEASE: 06-298 NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE SHUTTLE WEB AND TV COVERAGE NASA TV and the agency's home on the Internet, http://www.nasa.gov, will provide extensive prelaunch and launch day coverage of the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-115 to the International Space Station, scheduled for a Sunday, Aug. 27 launch. A prelaunch webcast is set for 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26, from NASA' ...Continue Reading
August 23rd 2006 PDT
Aug. 22, 2006 Michael Braukus/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/2087 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 06-299 NASA NAMES NEW CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLE ORION NASA announced Tuesday that its new crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion. Orion is the vehicle NASA's Constellation Program is developing to carry a new generation of explorers back to the moon and later to Mars. Orion will succeed the space shuttle as NASA's primary vehicle for human space explo ...Continue Reading
August 22nd 2006 PDT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS ON NASA TV Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. NASA will hold media briefings on the current and next mission to the International Space Station. The Expedition 14 preflight briefing will be held at 2 p.m. The Expedition 13 recap briefing will occur at 3 p.m. The briefings will air live on NASA TV and focus on the station's ongoing Expedition 13 mission and the upcoming Expedition 14 mission, ...Continue Reading
August 22nd 2006 PDT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS ON NASA TV Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2 p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 24, 3 p.m. NASA will hold media briefings on the current and next mission to the International Space Station. The Expedition 14 preflight briefing will be held at 2 p.m. The Expedition 13 recap briefing will occur at 3 p.m. The briefings will air live on NASA TV and focus on the station's ongoing Expedition 13 mission and the upcoming Expe ...Continue Reading
August 22nd 2006 PDT
Aug. 22, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237 Betty Flowers Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1584 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-135 NASA ANNOUNCES FLORIDA HURRICANE-RESEARCH MEDIA BRIEFING WHAT: Media pre-mission briefing on the NASA, NOAA, Aerosonde Hurricane Boundary Layer Mission. Media may observe a demonstration flight of the Aerosonde unmanned aerial system. This small, remotely piloted aircraft will make observations in hurricanes where the atmosphere meets the sea. It will g ...Continue Reading
August 22nd 2006 PDT
Aug. 21, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-134 SHUTTLE ATLANTIS EVENTS AND KENNEDY NEWS CENTER HOURS News conferences, events and operating hours for the NASA Kennedy Space Center News Center are set for the Aug. 27 launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station. On Thursday, Aug. 24, the six STS-115 crew members are scheduled to arrive at Kennedy at 11:15 a.m. EDT. ...Continue Reading
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