var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option August 27, 2014 * NASA Holds Teleconference Today to Discuss Progress on World’s Largest Rocket * NASA officials will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT today to discuss the agency’s progress on the Space Launch System (SLS), the heavy-lift rocket under development to take humans beyond Earth orbit and to Mars. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Aug 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 239 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Aug 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2146 N07W58 344 0300 Dki 07 09 Beta-Delta 2148 N02W39 325 0010 Bxo 07 04 Beta 2149 N10 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (26 August 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Curiosities of the Danakil Depression http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84239&src=eoa-iotd * Fires in California http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84236&src=eoa-iotd * Kulundra Steppes, Russia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84223&src=eoa-iotd * Sea Ice in the Greenland Sea ...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 August 26, 2014 * NASA Completes Successful Battery of Tests on Composite Cryotank *  Click this link or the image above to view the video  NASA has completed a complex series of tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured, bringing the aerospace industry much closer to designing, building, and flyin ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Fires in California * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84236&src=nha *** Image from Aug 24, 2014 (Posted on Aug 25, 2014 4:46 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 59 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Space Station Astronauts to Speak with California Elementary School Students ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:38:12 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: Space Station Astronauts to Speak with California Elementary School Students August 25, 2014 Ashl� Harris Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-3 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Aug 26 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 238 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Aug 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2141 N17W88 027 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2143 S03W92 033 0010 Axx 04 02 Alpha 2146 N09W46 ...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 August 25, 2014 * NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route to Historic Pluto Encounter * NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015. ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CANADA Several fires burned in Canada in summer 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84212&src=nha *** Image from Aug 17, 2014 (Posted on Aug 20, 2014 10:51 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://natu ...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 August 25, 2014 * NASA Awards Contract Option on Test and Operations Support Contract * NASA has exercised the first option to extend the period of performance of its Test and Operations Support Contract (TOSC) with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, TN, to September 30, 2016. Jacobs Technology Inc. will provide continued overall ma ...Continue Reading