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
October 31st 2006 PDT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
October 30th 2006 PDT
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 em ...Continue Reading
October 30th 2006 PDT
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
October 28th 2006 PDT
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
October 28th 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 26 October 2006. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ESPERANZA FIRE Waves of gray-brown smoke from the Esperanza Fire washed over the mountains southeast of Los Angeles and out over the Pacific on October 26, 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13945 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 26 2006 (Posted on Oct 27 2006 1:49PM) -- VOLCANO (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ON SOUFRIERE HILLS The Soufriere Hills Volcano on the Caribbean ...Continue Reading
October 27th 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Friday, October 27, 2006 Genetic Upper Class: Could the Human Race Split? Could the human species split in two over time due to evolutionary pressures as predicted by science fiction writer H.G. Wells? While the idea is fascinating, the science is flimsy. New Recipe: How to Make a Mass Extinction Scientists are revisiting what it takes to wipe out many species at once. And they think it might be happening again, right now. The W ...Continue Reading
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