December 21, 2013 * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-196 * * Space Station Crew Removes Ammonia Pump, Next Spacewalk Set for Tuesday * NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins completed a 5 hour and 28 minute spacewalk Saturday to remove a faulty ammonia pump on the International Space Station. A second spacewalk to install a new unit now is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 24. The extra day will allow time for the crew to resize a spare spacesuit on the space station for use by Mastracchio. During repressuri ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 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 355 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1920 N13W75 049 0050 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1921 N07W71 045 0200 Hax 04 02 Alpha 1928 S17W32 ...Continue Reading

December 20, 2013 * RELEASE 13-381 * * NASA Transforms Access to Low-Earth Orbit, Touches Interstellar Space, Makes Unprecedented Discoveries and Develops Cutting-Edge Technologies in 2013 * In 2013, NASA helped U.S. commercial companies transform access to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station even as one of the agency's venerable spacecraft was confirmed to have reached interstellar space, and engineers moved ahead on technologies that will help carry out the first astronaut mission ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 108 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Extends Deadlines for Student Exploration Design Challenge 2. Mockup of NASAs Orion Stopping in Tucson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:46:07 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Extends Deadlines for Student Exploration Design Challenge December 19, 2013 Ashl� Harris Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 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 354 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1917 S17W91 079 0180 Cso 04 02 Beta 1918 S10W70 058 0010 Axx 02 03 Alpha 1920 N13W62 ...Continue Reading

December 19, 2013 * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-053 * * NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for InSight Mission * NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo., to launch the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars. InSight will launch in March 2016 aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The total cost for NASA to launch InSight is approximately $160 million, ...Continue Reading

December 19, 2013 * RELEASE 13-377 * * NASA's Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation * This image of a patch of sky in the constellation Pisces is among the first taken by the infrared cameras of NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids and comets, h ...Continue Reading

December 19, 2013 * RELEASE 13-380 * * NASA Extends Deadlines for Student Exploration Design Challenge * NASA is extending deadlines for its Exploration Design Challenge, an educational program connected to Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) -- the first mission for NASA's new Orion spacecraft, scheduled to launch in September 2014 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The new deadline for high school students to submit payload design notebooks has been extended to Feb. 28. The deadline f ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 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 353 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1917 S16W77 077 0420 Dki 07 04 Beta-Gamma 1918 S09W55 055 0050 Hax 03 01 Alpha 1920 N1 ...Continue Reading

December 18, 2013 * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-194 * * NASA Administrator Visits High School Student Satellite Builders * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit a suburban Washington school on Friday, Dec. 20 where high school students built a small satellite that was launched into space in November. Media are invited to attend the tour of the lab where the satellite, TJ3Sat, was made at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., from 2 to 3 p.m. EST. TJ3Sat is a cube ...Continue Reading