March 14, 2014 * RELEASE 14-078 * * NASA Administrator Visits Marshall, Views Space Launch System Progress * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured on March 14 the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where testing is underway on the avionics unit for the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. At Marshall's System Integration Laboratory, Bolden, along with staff from Alabama's congressional delegation and community leaders, had the opportunity to view the Space Launch Syst ...Continue Reading

March 14, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-048 * * Media Invited to Tour Ames Research Center with NASA Administrator * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., on the afternoon of Monday, March 17, for demonstrations of and briefings on select aeronautics and space research activities performed at the center. Media are invited to attend Bolden’s tour of the laboratory used for research on volleyball-sized free-flying satellites called ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 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 73 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1996 N16W90 051 0060 Dao 02 03 Beta-Gamma 1998 S08W40 001 0020 Cao 02 06 Beta 1999 S17W ...Continue Reading

March 13, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-047 * * NASA Associate Administrator to Highlight Rocket for Orion's Flight Test * NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will address media at the facility where two booster stages for the Orion spacecraft's first trip to space are being prepared for launch. Reporters are invited to the event at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, March 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Launch Complex 37. The two boosters of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy ro ...Continue Reading

March 13, 2014 * RELEASE 14-077 * * NASA Names David W. Miller as Agency’s New Chief Technologist *  Image Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Thursday that David W. Miller, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., has been named the agency’s new Chief Technologist. As chief technologist, he will be Bolden's principal advisor and advocate on matters ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 13 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 72 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1996 N14W78 052 0220 Eac 12 16 Beta-Gamma 1998 S09W26 000 0040 Cao 06 09 Beta 1999 S18W ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-044 * * NASA to Host Visit by Students of U.S. Senate Youth Program * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address high school students participating in the 2014 United States Senate Youth Program at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 13, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will air on NASA Television. The discussion will focus on the intersection of public service and U.S. leadership in space exploration. Bolden will deliver the keynote remarks followed ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 * RELEASE 14-074 * * NASA's Operation IceBridge Begins New Arctic Campaign *  The NASA P-3 leaving the hangar at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the morning of March 10 in preparation for the flight to Thule Air Base, Greenland. Image Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice. The ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-046 * * Future Space Station Crew to Participate in NASA TV News Conference, Media Interviews * The crew of International Space Station Expedition 40/41, including NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, will participate in a NASA Television news conference and media interviews Tuesday, March 18, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Wiseman, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 The following position has opened at PO.DAAC. For additional information or to apply online, please visit: Scientific Applications Software Engineer, Science Data Engineering and Archiving Group Will be a member of the Science Data Engineering and Archiving Group and will report to the group supervisor. Will work as a data engineer in the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) in support of data management and engineering activities ...Continue Reading