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NOAA AND NASA TO HOLD PRESS BRIEFING ON UPCOMING LAUNCH OF GOES-M WEATHER
SATELLITE
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA will hold a
press briefing on Thursday, June 21, at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room at the
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., to announce the
planned launch of a new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite,
GOES-M. The launch of GOES-M is scheduled for July 15, 2001. This new satellite
will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events in the United
States on a real time basis.
GSFC Note
to Editors N01-63
18 June 2001
 MICROBES AND THE DUST THEY RIDE IN ON POSE
POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS
Potentially hazardous bacteria and fungi catch a
free ride across the Atlantic, courtesy of North African dust plumes.
NASA-funded researchers who made the discovery believe the stowaway microbes
might pose a health risk to people in the western Atlantic region.
GSFC/HQ
Press Release H01-120
PAO
Microbe website
14 June 2001
 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ERUPTION FELT AROUND THE
WORLD
The explosion of the Mt. Pinatubo volcano on June
15, 1991, was the largest volcanic eruption the world had seen in nearly a
century. In addition to the widespread destruction that the volcano wrought on
the Philippine island of Luzon, Mt. Pinatubo's impact was felt around the world.
Global average temperatures cooled for more than a year after the eruption due
to the massive injection of dust and gases into the upper atmosphere.
GSFC
Note to Editors N01-62
PAO
Pinatubo website
12 June 2001
 NASA TO "MAP" BIG BANG REMNANT TO SOLVE UNIVERSAL MYSTERIES
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), scheduled for
launch June 30, will journey into deep space on a voyage to
explore some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.
GSFC/HQ
Press Release H01-104
PAO
MAP Website
12 June 2001
NASA NAMES NELSON KEELER INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION FACILITY DIRECTOR
Nelson H. Keeler has been selected as the new director for
NASA's Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility
located in Fairmont, West Virginia. His appointment is effective
as of June 18, 2001.
In his new assignment, Keeler will be responsible for the
overall management of the facility that was established in 1993
as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest
achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission
critical software.
HQ
Press Release H01-117
07 June 2001
RECENT ADVANCES IN SOLAR RESEARCH IS TOPIC OF
HALE PRIZE LECTURE
A video with spectacular footage illustrating
recent observations and computer simulations in solar research will be featured
at this year's Hale Prize lecture. The video and lecture will be presented by
this year's Hale Prize recipient, Dr. Alan Title, Principal Investigator on
NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft at the
Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, Palo Alto, California.
GSFC
Note to Editors N01-53
06 June 2001
NEW TYPE OF BLACK HOLE MAY TURN STARBURST GALAXIES INSIDE OUT
Starburst galaxies -- those distant gems set aglow in a colorful lifecycle of
star birth, death and renewal -- may be the stepping stone to a far brighter
phenomenon: a quasar-type galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is finding that starburst galaxies have a
proportionally higher number of what appears to be intermediate-size black
holes, a new type of object announced last year.
GSFC Press
Release 01-59
PAO
site with images
05 June 2001
 METHOD UNCOVERED IN MADNESS OF BLACK HOLE AND NEUTRON STAR ERUPTIONS
In the fiery machinery of the night sky, where neutron stars and black holes
wrapped in binary systems can flare and burst randomly, astronomers have
uncovered a predictable mathematical pattern in the X- ray light emitted over
time.
Drs. Patricia Boyd and Alan Smale of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, MD, have followed the history of X-ray emission from three binary
star systems over the last several years and uncovered a unifying concept: The
number of days between the low points of emission in each binary system is
random yet always based on multiples of a single constant number.
HQ Press
Release H01-111
05 June 2001
PEGASUS/HESSI LAUNCH POSTPONED
The launch of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI)
spacecraft aboard an air-launched Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus
XL launch vehicle scheduled for June 7 has been postponed.
HQ Press
Release H01-112
05 June 2001
VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS TOUCH THE STARS WITH NEW HUBBLE BOOK
Students who in the past have not been able to experience some of
NASA's spectacular discoveries now have a unique opportunity to touch
the stars.
Some of the most majestic space images from NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope are now part of a special Braille book that combines tactile
illustrations with striking images of planets, star clusters and
nebulae, as viewed by Hubble.
HQ Press
Release H01-108
04 June 2001
GODDARD INNOVATOR INDUCTED INTO THE 2001 SPACE
TECHNOLOGY HALL OF FAME
Dr. Murzy Jhabvala, the chief engineer of NASA
Goddard Space Flight Centers' Instrument Technology Center, has been inducted
into the Space Technology Hall of Fame for his role in the successful
development and commercialization of Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIP).
The Space Technology Hall of Fame honors technologies originally developed for
space applications that have been commercialized to benefit life on Earth.
GSFC Press
Release 01-57
04 June 2001
HESSI SPACECRAFT TO STEAL EXPLOSIVE SOLAR SECRETS WITH X-RAY VISION
A new NASA spacecraft will soon be studying gigantic
explosions in the atmosphere of the Sun with a unique kind of
X-ray vision, producing the first high-fidelity color movies
of solar flares in their highest energy emissions.
HQ Press
Release H01-103
PAO Website
with images, presskit, etc.
01 June 2001
FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN SCIENCE,
THE SKY IS NO LONGER THE LIMIT
High school students from across the country will soon
see their year of hard work pay off by preparing their
experiments for launch into space.
Eight student teams and their teacher advisors will journey
to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight
Facility, Wallops Island, VA, after having their experiments
chosen for space flight through the NASA Student Involvement
Program (NSIP) flight opportunities competition.
HQ
Press Release H01-106
31 May 2001
NEW NASA/CSA MONITOR PROVIDES GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION VIEW FROM SPACE
The most complete view ever assembled of the world's air pollution churning
through the atmosphere, crossing continents and oceans, has been produced
by NASA's Terra spacecraft. For the first time, policymakers and scientists
now have a way to identify the major sources of air pollution and can
closely track where the pollution goes, anywhere on Earth.
HQ Press
Release H01-102
PAO Website with
images and animations
30 May 2001
NEW SATELLITE MAPS PROVIDE PLANNERS IMPROVED URBAN SPRAWL INSIGHT
A major advance in satellite-based land surface mapping has led to the
creation of more accurate and detailed maps of our cities. These maps
provide urban planners with a better understanding of city growth and how
rainfall runoff over paved surfaces impact regional water quality.
Maps taken from space are invaluable to city planners and state agencies
monitoring water quality in urban areas, and are replacing the more
expensive and time-consuming traditional aerial photography.
HQ Press
Release H01-101
PAO Website
with images
30 May 2001
LANIER WINS CONTRACT TO PROVIDE NASA WITH COPIER SERVICES
Lanier Worldwide, Inc., in Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a contract
with a base period value of $17,258,297 to provide NASA with digital copier
services.
Under terms of the firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity,
performance-based contract, Lanier will provide all NASA centers, their
facilities and tenants with digital copier services, supplies, maintenance and
training.
GSFC Press
Release 01-51C
25 May 2001
GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION MONITORING DEBUTS AT AGU PRESS BRIEFING, MAY 30
NASA's Terra spacecraft has produced the most complete view of the world's
air pollution ever assembled. Policymakers and scientists now have, for the
first time, a way to identify the major sources of air pollution and closely
track where the pollution goes all year round and anywhere on Earth.
The first observations from this unprecedented environmental monitoring
capability will be released at a press briefing Wednesday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m.
EDT at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Boston, Mass. The event will be
held in Room 111 of Boston's Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street.
GSFC Note
to Editors N01-50
25 May 2001
FIRST DETECTION OF "FREE SPIRITS" IN
SOLAR WIND MAY HELP TIME THE ARRIVAL OF SPACE WEATHER AND PROBE OUR ORIGINS
Scientists have confirmed the existence of and
imaged "free spirit" atoms - atoms not subject to magnetic forces
because they are electrically neutral - in the solar wind for the first time.
They hope to use the observations to better estimate the arrival time of solar
storms and to estimate the amount of dust left over from the solar system's
birth.
GSFC
Press Release 01-25
24 May 2001
FIRST EXCELLENCE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY AWARD WINNERS NAMED
Two employees in NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center's Earth Sciences Directorate are the recipients of the Center's 2001
Excellence in Information Science and Technology (IS&T) Award. The award is
presented annually to the Goddard employee(s) who best exhibit(s) broad,
significant contributions to the center's programs or projects in the areas of
information science and technology.
GSFC
Press Release 01-55
24 May 2001
JONATHAN ORMES NAMED SPACE SCIENCES DIRECTOR AT
GODDARD
Dr. Jonathan Ormes has been named the new
Director of Space Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md.
In his new position, Ormes will be responsible
for planning, organizing and evaluating a broad program of scientific research,
both theoretical and experimental, in the study of Space sciences. The program
ranges from basic research to flight experiment development, to mission
operations and data analysis.
GSFC
Press Release 01-54
24 May 2001
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