August 22, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789rachel.hoover@nasa.gov Keith Koehler
 Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia 757-824-1579keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov  * RELEASE 13-265 * * NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon * In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11 ...Continue Reading

August 22, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-132 * * NASA Releases New Imagery of Asteroid Mission * NASA released Thursday new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including the Orion spacecraft's trip to and rendezvous with the relocated asteroid, as well as astronauts maneuvering through a sp ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN EASTERN RUSSIA Record flooding occurred on the Amur River in far eastern Russia in August 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81900&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 21, 2013 (Posted on Aug 21, 2013 2:48 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Haz ...Continue Reading

August 22, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Donna Weaver / Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493 / 4514dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu * RELEASE 13-261 * * Astronomers Use Hubble Images for Movies Featuring Space Slinky * Astronomers have assembled, from more than 13 years of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a series of time-lapse movies showing a jet of superheated gas -- 5,000 ligh ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:31:46 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC August 21, 2013 William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #C13-038 NASA Awards Human Health and Performanc ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Aug 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 234 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Aug 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1818 S06W91 221 0150 Hsx 06 01 Alpha 1820 S12W47 177 0130 Dai 08 15 Beta-Gamma 1823 S0 ...Continue Reading

August 21, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011agle@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-263 * * NASA Spacecraft Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids * Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to service for three more y ...Continue Reading

Folks:             Immediately below is a link to an interesting astrobiology seminar that the Library of Congress is sponsoring on September 12.  Below that is info about an unrelated cryptology history conference that may also be of interest to readers of this listserv.  Thanks,             Steve Garber   Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 2T72 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC ...Continue Reading

August 21, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-038 * * NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC * NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of all human spaceflight programs at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contr ...Continue Reading

August 21, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 212-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jeannette Owens Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2990jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13--036 * * NASA Selects Advanced Research and Technology Contract * NASA has selected Universities Space Research Association (USRA) of Columbia, Md., to support research and technology efforts at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This cost-plus-fixed fee indefinite-delive ...Continue Reading