Folks: There’s an archivist job open to U.S. citizens at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/400976800) .   Any questions should be addressed to the human resources folks listed at the end of the job announcement. Thanks a lot.             -Steve   Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 5P25 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 202-358-0385 http://history.nasa.gov Forward this Message to ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 711 2015 Apr 15 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 43 continues under the command of Terry Virts, with FE-3 Anton Shkaplerov and FE-4 Samantha Cristoforetti joined by Gennadiy Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly after the TMA-16M (flight 42S) docking. Soyuz TMA-16M was launched on Mar ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Apr 15 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 105 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Apr 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2320 S14W92 214 0070 Dao 08 03 Beta 2321 N13E26 096 0620 Ekc 13 14 Beta-Gamma 2322 N14 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 April 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85698&src=eoa-iotd * Tornado Track in Northern Illinois http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85689&src=eoa-iotd * Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85673&src=eoa-iotd * Iceberg B-15 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 14, 2015 * Research for One-Year Space Station Mission Among NASA Cargo Launched Aboard SpaceX Resupply Flight *  The series of images shows the journey the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from its launch at 4:10 p.m. EDT on Tuesday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, to ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 14, 2015 * NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Public Events, Online Activities *  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks to students at the 2014 Earth Day events at Union Station in Washington.Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani  NASA will celebrate the 45th annual Earth Day April 17-22 with a variety of live and onlin ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TORNADO IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS An EF-4 tornado touched down in northern Illionois on April 9, 2015. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85689&src=nha *** Image from Apr 10, 2015 (Posted on Apr 13, 2015 2:59 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a servic ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 14, 2015 * NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter with Pluto * NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons. "Scientific literature is filled with papers o ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Apr 14 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 104 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Apr 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2320 S14W78 213 0070 Dao 08 06 Beta 2321 N13E40 095 0620 Ekc 13 14 Beta-Gamma-Delta 23 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 13, 2015 * NASA to Celebrate MESSENGER Mission Prior to Surface Impact of Mercury *  Artist concept of the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around planet Mercury.Image Credit: NASA NASA will hold a media and public event at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 16, to share scientific findings and technical accomplishments of the ...Continue Reading