Pre-order Year in Space Calendar and Viewing Alerts for ISS If you have trouble viewing this email, click here. What’s that in the sky? A plane? A shooting star? No, it’s the bigger and brighter International Space Station, now equipped with the largest solar panels ever taken to space.Nobody knows how much brighter it will be, but there’s a good chance that it could be brighter than magnitude -3, approaching the glow of Venus, the brightest ...Continue Reading

Oct. 3, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Edward Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8955 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-156 NASA NEWS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER NASA hosts a news briefing Tuesday at 3 P.M. EDT with Dr. John C. Mather, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Mather is the first NASA civil servant scientist to be awarded this prestigious honor. The briefing will be in the auditorium ...Continue Reading

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SPACE.com Update for October 2, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *October 2, 2006*   *TOP STORY* *posted: October 2, 2006 04:01 pm EDT* *Galactic Birth Control: Unknown Factor Prevents Star Formation*Stars in large galaxies formed much ...Continue Reading

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006 SCIENCE UPDATE ON NASA TV Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1 p.m. EDT, auditorium. NASA is hosting a science update to discuss the Hubble Space Telescope's discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars. The news conference will air live on NASA TV. For details visit, http://www.nasa.gov/ntv OCTOBER IS ENERGY AWARENESS MONTH Contact: Wayne Thalasinos 358-3811. This year's slogan, "Energy indep ...Continue Reading

Oct. 2, 2006 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0669 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-054 NASA AWARDS SPACE PROGRAM OPERATIONS CONTRACT NASA has awarded a letter contract valued at $1.1 billion for the first six months to United Space Alliance (USA), LLC, of Houston. When definitized, it will result in a four-year contract through Sept. 30, 2010, to cover Space Shuttle Program operations. Efforts under the Space Program Operations Contract include ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Monday, October 2, 2006 VIDEO: Bird Radar Bird-brains keep pace with GPS systems by flying Earth’s magnetic field. Small Digital Camera Makes Night-Vision Images A new single-pixel digital camera in the works would not only takes up less power and space, but might also take night-vision pictures as well. Simple Eye Test Could Spot Alzheimer's Early On Scanning the eyes with lasers could help detect signs of Alzheimer's ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 29 September 2006. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE ISAAC On September 30, Hurricane Isaac became the fifth hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13904 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 01 2006 (Posted on Oct 02 2006 1:00PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http: ...Continue Reading

Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2006 http://spaceweather.com COMET SWAN: There's a new comet in the night sky, Comet Swan. It's a trifle too dim for naked-eye viewing, but it is an easy target for binoculars and small telescopes. Observers report a "spectacular" emerald-colored head and a long sinuous tail. Visit http://spaceweather.com for sky maps and more information. AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream hit Earth this weekend. The resulting geomagnetic storm was not very strong; nevertheless, auroras we ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3341 June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-7061 RELEASE: 06-323 NASA ENDS ONE CHAPTER IN HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT, PREPARES FOR THE NEXT NASA is marking a historic moment in the life of the nation's largest rocket engine test complex. The Stennis Space Center conducted the final space shuttle main engine test on its A-1 Test Stand Friday. Although this ends the stand's work ...Continue Reading