May 27th 2015 PDT
May 27, 2015 RELEASE 15-105*Commercial Crew Milestones Met; Partners on Track for Missions in 2017* */Credits: NASA/* NASA has taken another step toward returning America’s ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017. The Commercial Crew Program ordered its first crew rotation mission from The Boeing Company. SpaceX, which successfully performed a pad abort test of its flight vehicle earlier this month, is expected to receive its first order later this year ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2015 PDT
May 27, 2015 RELEASE 15-106*NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander in Preparation for Next Mission to Red Planet* Testing is underway on NASA’s next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016. The lander is called InSight, an abbreviation for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. It is about the size of a car and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the interior structure of the Red Planet. Examining the planet's deep int ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2015 PDT
May 27, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-084*Astronaut Available to Discuss First, Next 50 Years of Spacewalking* On June 3, 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White exited the Gemini 4 space capsule using a hand-held oxygen jet gun to push himself from the hatch for a 23-minute tethered spacewalk that set the stage for future moonwalks, satellite retrievals and repairs, and space station assembly and maintenance. NASA astronaut Mike Foreman is seen here during the fourth spacewalk of STS-123 on March 21, 2008, during which ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2015 PDT
Folks: The /Aeronautics and Space Report of the President, Fiscal Year 2014 Activities/ is now available at http://history.nasa.gov/presrep2014.pdf online. Previous editions of this legislatively mandated report are also available from http://history.nasa.gov/presrep.html online. Thanks, Steve Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 5P25 NASA Headquarters Wa ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 27 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 147 Issued at 0030Z on 27 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2349 S19W76 002 0040 Cso 03 02 Beta 2353 N07W59 345 0030 Cso 03 02 Beta 2354 S19W56 ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
May 26, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius-CAP v3.0 data covering the month of April 2015. CAP Level 2 and 3 products are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?search=CAP and are being distributed via PODAAC's general public ftp site, OPeNDAP, THREDDS and LAS. Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of April, and will be augmented o ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
May 26, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-081*NASA Brings Science of Space Down to Earth for 2015 World Science Festival * Kids and adults alike got a kick out of the NASA mobile exhibit during the 2014 World Science Festival. */Credits: NASA/Tara Ruttley /* From mega space telescopes to space navigation, NASA is bringing a variety of interactive, hands-on activities and exhibits to the more than 100,000 visitors who will attend this year’s World Science Festival in New York Wednesday, May 27 through Sunday, M ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (26 May 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Baked Alaska http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85932&src=eoa-iotd * Dynamic Spring Weather in North Atlantic Waters http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85921&src=eoa-iotd * Lake Issyk Kul http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85918&src=eoa-iotd * Satellite Eyes on Typhoon Dolphin http ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
May 26, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-083*NASA Television to Air U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony May 30* NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2015 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30. The ceremony will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction in Florida. Joining the hall of fame this year are NASA’s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld, and former astronauts ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2015 PDT
May 26, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-082*NASA Sets New Launch Window for Supersonic Vehicle Test* The second flight test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) now will launch no earlier than 12:30 p.m. EDT (7:30 a.m. HST) Tuesday, June 2, from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii. NASA Television coverage will begin at 1 p.m. EDT (7 a.m. HST). To accommodate prevailing weather conditions, mission managers moved the launch window one hour earlier to increase the probabi ...Continue Reading
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