By Lynda Yezzi Valentine, 45th Space Wing Public Affairs PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) — When Space Shuttle Atlantis rocketed into the pre-dawn sky May 19 and the astronauts on […]
Space Science News from NASA HQ
Greetings, Just a few things of note in the last week at http://spacescience.nasa.gov/ : ——————- On Sunday, June 4, the successful nine-year mission of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory will […]
NEAR shows Eros is relic of solar system birth
Contact: David BrandOffice: (607) 255-3651E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. — Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, NASA’s mission to orbit and study a distant asteroid presented researchers with a glimpse of […]
Orbital successfully launches suborbital version of U.S. Air Force Rocket
For More Information Contact: Barron Beneski (703) 406-5000 New Long-Range Target Vehicle Is Part of Orbital’s Work in U.S. National Missile Defense Effort Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully conducted the first […]
NASA Marshall Center reaches agreement with Air Force and Department of Energy in Tennessee
Contact: Jerry Berg Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 jerry.berg@msfc.nasa.gov RELEASE: 00-169 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has reached an agreement with U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department […]
‘Lying’ gets space-age results
Department of Public AffairsUniversity of Toronto CONTACT: Professor Christopher DamarenU of T Institute for Aerospace Studiesph: (416) 667-7704; email: cjd@sdr.utias.utoronto.ca U of T Public Affairsph: (416) 978-6974; email: jf.wong@utoronto.ca Entering corrected equation rather […]
Chesapeake Bay watershed to benefit from new Landsat 7 land cover maps
Contact: Lynn Chandler lychand@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov 301-614-5562 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center–EOS Project Science Office “Smarter” land use planning and better estimates of polluted water runoff across the 64,000 square-mile (110,000-square-kilometer) Chesapeake Bay […]
New Eros Global Rotation Movie
NEAR Image of the Day for 2000 May 30 http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20000530/ Eros Global Rotation Movie Animated GIF QuickTime Uncompressed (1.2M) (5.5M) QuickTime (18M) MPG (8M) Animated GIF QuickTime Uncompressed (2.3M) (10M) […]
NASA Daily News Summary 30 May 2000
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: May 30, 2000 Media Advisory m00-106 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES None today. VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** Video File for May 30, 2000 ITEM 1- SOLVE […]
VLA Reveals Hot “Bubbles” in Swirling Disk at Milky Way’s Heart
P.O. Box OSocorro, New Mexico 87801http://www.nrao.edu Contact:Dave Finley, Public Information Officer(505) 835-7302, dfinley@nrao.edu Sophisticated computer analysis of 20 years of data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio […]