WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (TNSfact) -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance issued the following fact sheet: * * * Solicitations and Funding The Advancing Women Officers in State and Local Law Enforcement: Technical Assistance and Microgrant Program The Advancing Women Officers in State and Local Law Enforcement: Technical Assistance and Microgrant Program supports the collaborative administration of the 30x30 Initiative in state, local, and trib  more

PASADENA, California, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on Oct. 13, 2024: Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter's moon Europa. In less than 24 hours, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is slated to launch from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. Its sights are set on Jupiter's ice-encased moon Euro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- NASA issued the following news release: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. After launch, the spacecraft plans to fly by Mars in February 2025, then back by Earth in December 2026, using the gravity of each planet to increase its momentum. With help of these "gravity assists," Europa Clipper will achieve the velocity ne  more

PASADENA, California, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on Oct. 14, 2024: The massive spacecraft heads for Europa to search for signs of whether the ocean thought to exist beneath the moon's icy shell could support life. NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Today, President Joseph R. Biden and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell met with federal, state and local officials as well as survivors to receive a briefing on the recovery efforts and tour the damage in areas of Florida impacted by two hurricanes less than a week apart. Throughout the Southeast, over 9,600 total federal personnel are deployed, including 4,10  more