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 22, 2014 * NASA Featured Prominently at USA Science and Engineering Festival April 25-27 * Media are invited to join a host of NASA scientists, engineers and managers at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 25-27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW, Washington. At 8 a.m. EDT on Frid ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 22 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 112 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2034 N05W80 247 0260 Eki 13 11 Beta-Gamma 2035 S15W58 225 0290 Eki 12 27 Beta-Gamma 20 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- WILDFIRE BURNS VALPARAISO, CHILE A large wildfire burned homes on the edge of the Chilean city of Valparaiso. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83498&src=nha *** Image from Apr 13, 2014 (Posted on Apr 14, 2014 5:04 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SHIVELUCH VOLCAN ...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 21, 2014 * NASA Selects Commercial Crew Program Manager * NASA has selected Kathy Lueders as program manager for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Lueders, who has served as acting program manager since October 2013, will help keep the nation's space program on course to launch astronauts from American soil by 2017 aboa ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #14-16 2014 April 20 at 11:21 p.m. MDT (2014 April 21 0521 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 14-20 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions were observed on 20 April. R1 (Minor) radio blackout conditions were observed on 16 April. R2 (Moderate) radio blackout conditions were observed on 18 April. S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm conditions were ob ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 21 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 111 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2033 N11W84 264 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2034 N04W66 246 0270 Eko 11 16 Beta-Gamma 2035 S1 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 20 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 110 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2032 N12W83 276 0130 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2033 N12W71 264 0080 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2034 N05W52 ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 696 2014 Apr 19 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 39 continues with commander Koichi Wakata and flight engineers Tyurin, Mastracchio, Skvortsov, Artem'ev and Swanson. The Progress M-22M cargo ship undocked from the Pirs module at 1358 UTC Apr 7; it remained in a 360 x 417 km orbit for Radar-Progre ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 19 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 109 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2032 N12W70 275 0110 Hax 02 01 Alpha 2033 N12W58 263 0080 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2034 N04W39 ...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 18, 2014 * NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission * Nearly 2.5 tons of NASA science investigations and cargo are on the way to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Forc ...Continue Reading