:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity :Issued: 2000 Apr 06 2200 UT # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, #Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # […]
Suspected Protoplanet May Really be a Distant Star
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) Nancy Neal Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-0039) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410/338-4514) RELEASE: 00-58 Follow-up […]
NASA and National Cancer Institute Join to Develop Nano-explorers for the Human Body
Renee Juhans Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1712) NOTE TO EDITORS: N00-15 To treat symptoms of the common cold, most people take a gel capsule containing hundreds of granular pieces of […]
Ulysses feels the brush of a comet’s tail
A chance encounter between Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA spacecraft, and a cometís tail is leading scientists to conclude that comet tails extend much further than anyone supposed – right to […]
SpaceDev Funded for Orbital Transfer Vehicle Motor Firings
Hybrid Motor Regression Tests Augment National Reconnaissance Office-Funded Project SpaceDev, Inc., the world’s first commercial space exploration and development company, announced today it has been informed by the California Space […]
Space Weather Bulletin #00- 2 – GEOMAGNETIC STORM BEGINNING
SEC Space Weather Advisory Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER BULLETIN #00- 2 2000 April 06 at 02:50 p.m. MDT (2000 […]
Space Shuttle Status Report April 6, 2000
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2000 (11:00 a.m. EDT) MISSION: STS-101 — 3rd ISS Flight (2A.2a) – SPACEHAB DM VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 LOCATION: Pad 39A TARGET […]
Chance Encounter Tells Tail of One Comet and Promises New Way to Find and Study Many More
CONTACT: Lee Tune (301) 405-4679 ltune@accmail.umd.edu COLLEGE PARK, MD — Scientists reviewing solar wind data from the spacecraft Ulysses have stumbled upon evidence that comet tails stretch for hundreds of […]
KSC fertilizer producing system installed at shuttle pad
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham KSC Release No. 28-00 The next Space Shuttle mission will be devoted to the continued growth of the International Space Station. In an indirect way, the […]
Marshall Center to Post Results of NASA’s 7th Annual ‘Great Moonbuggy Race’
Jerry Berg Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 Jerry.Berg@msfc.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 00-122 Marshall Center to Post Results of NASA’s 7th Annual ‘Great Moonbuggy Race’ News media and the public will be […]