NASA History List-serv readers, Our first quarterly history brown bag for 2014 will be Thursday, February 6th, at noon in NASA Headquarters room 3H46 (MIC-3).  Our speaker is the inimitable Fred Ordway.  He'll be discussing his work as a technical consultant to Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (complete with some video clips).  If you want to attend (and don't have a badge to get in the building) or would like to join us virtually via Webex, contact Nadine Andreassen at: nadine.j.andre ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 31 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 31 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1959 S23W88 241 0060 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1960 S15W82 235 0050 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 1965 S15W56 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- AGRICULTURAL FIRES IN WEST AFRICA Widespread fires burned throughout West Africa during the agricultural burning season of early 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83001&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 28, 2014 (Posted on Jan 30, 2014 1:46 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SNO ...Continue Reading

January 30, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-025 * * NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Cargo Ship Activities Live * The departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft and the launch and docking of another to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) will air live on NASA Television Monday, Feb. 3, and Wednesday, Feb. 5. The ISS Progress 52 cargo craft that arrived at the space station last July will undock from the station's Pirs docking compartment at 11:21 a.m. EST Feb. 3 and move away ...Continue Reading

January 30, 2014 * RELEASE 14-038 * * NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries * NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org. Disk Detective is NASA's largest crowdsourcing project whose primary goal is to produce publishable scientific results. It exemplifies a new commitment to crowdsourcing an ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 30 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 30 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1959 S23W75 242 0090 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1960 S15W70 237 0070 Hsx 03 03 Alpha 1965 S13W43 ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * RELEASE 14-037 * * NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Jan. 31 * NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Jan. 31. NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other agency senior officials will hold an observance and ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-021 * * NASA Discusses James Webb Space Telescope Progress * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland will participate in a news conference at 9 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 3, to discuss the status of the agency's flagship science project, the James Webb Space Telescope. The event will take place in Building 8 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and be broadcast live on NASA Television. Webb will be the premiere ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * RELEASE 14-035 * * NASA Selects Physical Science Research Proposals for the International Space Station * NASA's Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency's new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016. NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) will provide an opportunity to study ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the space station -- a frontier ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- BUSHFIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA Extreme heat and strong winds fueled smoky grass fires in southeastern Australia in January 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82987&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 28, 2014 (Posted on Jan 29, 2014 11:59 AM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new im ...Continue Reading