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Most Recent Update: Tuesday, Oct. 22, 3:45 EDT
(Adding Lucid news conference, news releases)

Headlines:

Lucid News Conference Available over Internet

Administrator's Statement on Non-discrimination

Old Favorites:

Updated Photo and Video Galleries Online

Información Sobre Las Misiones de la NASA Disponible en Español

Hubble Space Telescope Pictures

Business Opportunities with NASA

NASA Research Announcements Online

Previous headlines from [email protected] can be found in Yesterday's News.

Lucid News Conference Available over Internet

Internet users can listen live to the Oct. 24 news conference featuring NASA Astronaut Shannon Lucid, who spent six months aboard the Russian Mir Space Station. The news conference will be carried over a RealAudio feed being provided in cooperation with Houston Chronicle Interactive. The news conference begins at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Internet users will need a RealAudio player to listen.

(Oct. 22, 1996)

Administrator's Statement on Non-discrimination

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin issued a statement today reaffirming that NASA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment in the workplace.

(Oct. 22, 1996)

New Pictures from Galileo

Recently released images from Galileo's mission to study Jupiter and its moons include this image of Io, showing volcanic hot spots and auroral emissions. New releases are posted regularly to the Galileo Home Page.

(Oct. 18, 1996)

Future Mars Missions

NASA is preparing to launch two missions to Mars in late 1996 and to participate in a third with Russia. NASA's Mars Global Surveyor will be launched Nov. 6, followed by Mars Pathfinder on Dec. 2. Russia's Mars '96 mission will be launched. The Mars Global Surveyor will study Mars' atmosphere, surface and interior from orbit, while the other two missions will include robotic landers. A press kit describing all three missions is available in plain text or PDF format (1.6 MB), which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

(Oct. 18, 1996)

Life on Mars?

A NASA research team has found evidence that strongly suggests primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. The evidence includes what may be microscopic fossils (right) of bacteria-like organisms inside an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite 13,000 years ago.

NASA's press release on the Mars announcement is available, as well as NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's statement on the discovery.

On Sept. 12, Dr. Wes Huntress, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, testified before a House committee on the implications of the discovery and on NASA's strategy for exploring Mars and for searching for the origins of life. An appendix outlines NASA's planned missions to Mars.

If the link above is slow, try a reflectors at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

(Aug. 7, 1996)

Most Recent News Releases:

10/22/96

10/21/96

TWO SPACE SCIENCE SPACECRAFT SET FOR LAUNCH FROM WALLOPS

10/17/96

PREVIOUS NASA HEADQUARTERS PRESS RELEASES (From 1990)

Updated Photo and Video Galleries On-line

The listings on NASA's Photo Gallery and Video Gallery pages have been broadened and updated to provide a much richer resource for those looking for visual imagery from space. The listings under Earth observations and astronomy have been expanded, and a link provided to NASA's robotics photo index. Other sources, such as the Defense Meterological Satellite program, are also included. Come and gif 'em.

(June 20, 1996)

Información Sobre Las Misiones de la NASA Disponible en Español

Este sitio de la Red, patrocinado por el Centro Espacial Kennedy, incluye información sobre las misiones espaciales, y biografias de los astronautas en español.

(March 1, 1996)

Hubble Pictures


Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Myriad Galaxies Back to the Beginning of Time	Hubble finds searchlight beams and multiple arcs around a Dying Star	Hubble unveils Pluto's Surface	Previously Released Hubble photos

(Nov. 5, 1995)

Shuttle Mission Schedule

The current Schedule of Future Shuttle Missions is available. All dates are subject to change. The next launches:

STS-80/Columbia, carrying a German astronomy satellite, is scheduled for launch Nov. 8.
STS-81/Atlantis, is scheduled for liftoff on Jan. 16, 1997, on the fifth Shuttle/Mir docking mission and the fifth flight of SpaceHab.
STS-82/Discovery, is scheduled for liftoff on Feb. 13, 1997, on the second servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.

(Aug. 30, 1996)

Business Opportunities with NASA

The NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) is your link to NASA's business opportunities over $25,000 in estimated value. NAIS, a collection of on-line servers at each NASA field installation, provides industry with immediate access to current acquisition information over the Internet. NAIS also provides a link to the Federal Acquisition Jumpstation, an index of procurement links to other federal agencies.

(Sept. 19, 1996)

NASA Research Announcements Online

Various NASA offices have begun to publish their research announcements over the Internet, broadening the opportunity for researchers to apply for funding:

(Oct. 4, 1996)

[email protected]

Internet users can now obtain Kennedy Space Center news releases and status reports by electronic subscription. Two KSC list servers will automatically forward to them all KSC Space Shuttle status reports, KSC-originated news releases and other periodic reports.
The Complete NASA TV schedule includes news footage, educational programs and historical films. This page includes the schedule for TV coverage of Space Shuttle missions, which is also available through the Space Shuttle Home Page.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is collecting signatures to put on a CD-ROM aboard the Cassini mission to Saturn, set for launch in 1997. Click here for information on how to send your name to the Outer Solar System.
Information on Mission Coverage of NASA Television on CU-SeeMe
International Space Station. - NASA, in cooperation with Russia and other international partners will send men and women into space for extended periods of time in order to do research which will better our lives on Earth.
The Shuttle Reference Manual - Everything you always wanted to know about the Shuttle but were afraid to ask.
Tour of the Solar System - If you have some free time why not take a tour of the Solar System?