Northern lights research enters final frontier

Northern lights research enters final frontier from PhysOrg.com

An international team of scientists -- including physicists from the University of Calgary -- will begin gathering the most detailed information yet about the ever-changing northern lights, as a multi-year research project enters its ultimate phase with the launch of five NASA satellites from Cape Canaveral next month.[...]

Research Continues for Deep Space Travel Propulsion

Research Continues for Deep Space Travel Propulsion from PhysOrg.com

Graduate students and faculty researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are investigating propulsion concepts that could eventually revolutionize deep space travel.

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Leading physicists convene in Tucson for conference on gravity

Leading physicists convene in Tucson for conference on gravity from PhysOrg.com

More than three dozen leading physicists and astrophysicists will convene in Tucson for the conference, "Rethinking Gravity: from the Planck scale to the size of the Universe," Jan. 22 - 24, 2007.[...]

Live NASA TV Coverage for Arrival of Next Space Station Cargo Ship

Jan. 12, 2007

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4769

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-005

LIVE NASA TV COVERAGE FOR ARRIVAL OF NEXT SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP

HOUSTON - The crew aboard the International Space Station will receive
a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies from a Russian Progress
spacecraft due to dock with the station on Friday, Jan. 19. NASA
Television will broadcast the arrival live.

After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on
Wednesday, Jan. 17, the Progress 24 spacecraft is scheduled to dock
to the station about 10 p.m. CST, Jan. 19. Live coverage of the
docking begins at 9 p.m.

The Progress will bring more than two tons of supplies to the
Expedition 14 crew. Currently aboard the station are Commander Mike
Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams.
Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin have been aboard the station for four
months. Williams joined them in December to begin a six-month stay in
orbit.

For NASA TV downlink, schedule, and streaming video information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more on the space station crew's activities and sighting
opportunities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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NASA Briefing to Preview Jupiter Flyby of Pluto Mission

Jan. 11, 2007

Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726/3895

Michael Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
240-228-7536

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-004

NASA BRIEFING TO PREVIEW JUPITER FLYBY OF PLUTO MISSION

WASHINGTON - NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday,
Jan. 18, to preview the flight of the Pluto-bound New Horizons
spacecraft through the Jupiter system. The briefing will take place
in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., Washington. The
briefing will air live on NASA Television and streamed at

www.nasa.gov.

New Horizons will use Jupiter's gravity to boost its speed toward the
outer solar system, while training its cameras and sensors on the
giant planet and its moons during a six-month encounter.

Briefing participants:

- James Green, acting director, Solar System Division, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
- Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
- John Spencer, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter science team deputy
lead, Southwest Research Institute
- Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager, Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Reporters at participating agency field centers will be able to ask
questions. For more information about NASA TV, streaming video,
downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

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NASA Media Briefing on Mission to Study Auroras

Jan. 11, 2007

Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726/3895

Cynthia O'Carroll/Rani Gran
Goddard Space Flight Center, Md.
301-286-4647/2483

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-003

NASA MEDIA BRIEFING ON MISSION TO STUDY AURORAS

GREENBELT, Md. - NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
(THEMIS) mission on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 1 p.m. EST.

THEMIS consists of five identical probes that will study the violent
colorful eruptions of the Earth auroras. The satellites will to
launch aboard a Delta II rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center,
Fla., on Thursday, Feb. 15, for a two-year mission.

Briefing participants:
-- Craig Pollock, THEMIS program scientist, NASA Headquarters,
Washington
-- Vassilis Angelopoulos, THEMIS principal investigator, University of
California, Berkeley
-- Peter Harvey, THEMIS project manager, University of California,
Berkeley
-- Jim Slavin, director, Goddard Space Flight Center Heliophysics
Division, Greenbelt, Md.

Reporters should call 888-455-0031 and use the pass code "THEMIS" to
participate in the teleconference. International media should call
+1-210-234-0007. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Related images will be available at::

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/news/prelaunch_briefing.html

For more information about the THEMIS mission, visit:

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Panel Will Study Mars Global Surveyor Events

Jan. 10, 2007

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726

Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-6278

RELEASE: 07-04

PANEL WILL STUDY MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR EVENTS

WASHINGTON - NASA has formed an internal review board to look more
indepth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November
2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase
safety for other spacecraft.

Mars Global Surveyor launched in 1996 on a mission designed to study
Mars from orbit for two years. It accomplished many important
discoveries during nine years in orbit. On Nov. 2, the spacecraft
transmitted information that one of its arrays was not pivoting as
commanded. Loss of signal from the orbiter began on the following
orbit.

Mars Global Surveyor has operated longer at Mars than any other
spacecraft in history and for more than four times as long as the
prime mission originally planned.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages Mars Global
Surveyor for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed and operates the
spacecraft.

Information about the mission is available on the Internet at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mgs/index.html

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