Knowledge Management
The Washington Post featured an article on how NASA is managing with the near future wave of retirements, which will occur across federal agencies. As part of the knowledge sharing initiative, NASA has developed a publication with a collection of information from senior managers. The article speaks of Martin Davis, GOES/POES Program Manager at Goddard who is part of the knowledge preservation efforts. Martin has attended several tell-it-all-knowledge sessions and is quoted expressing how more meaningful the sessions are then just having to read 'lessons learned.'

Earth Science
The Bush Administration focus on reducing black-carbon soot and methane instead of carbon dioxide pollution as focus, the primary cause of global warming was a featured article in The San Diego Union-Tribune. The article refers to James Hansen from GISS as "the father of global-warming science" who recommends reducing carbon dioxide pollution.

A NASA study, which finds that the perennial sea ice in the Arctic is melting at a rate of 9 percent per decade, was a featured article in the Xinhua News Agency. Josefino Camiso, lead researcher from Goddard, is quoted in the article explaining the affects of the melting ice.

Florida Today featured an article on next month's launching of a trio of satellites and instruments, which will measure ice, wind and hot plasma. ICESat will help scientists know whether the ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica are growing or shrinking. The article quotes Jay Zwally, ICESat project scientist, explaining the purpose of studying the melting which is occurring in those area.

Space Science
Spaceflightnow.com and Space.com featured articles on the Wednesday evening launch of TDRS-J satellite. TDRS-J will provide users with improved multiple access, S-band single access, as well as a new Ka-band service.