November 21, 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 * RELEASE 13-349 * * NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data * NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon. On Nov. 20, the spacecraft successfully entered its planned orbit around the moon's equator -- a unique positi ...Continue Reading

November 21, 2013 Rachel Kraft/Becky Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100/202-358-1694Rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov / sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-350 * * NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection * NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA's first partnership associated with the agency's Astero ...Continue Reading

November 21, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Bill Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-186 * * NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Discuss Thanksgiving in Space * NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Vickie Kloeris, the agency's manager of the International Space Station food system, will discuss the space station's Thanksgiving menus in live satellite interviews from 7- 8:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, N ...Continue Reading

November 21, 2013 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-348 * * NASA Missions Study 'Watershed' Cosmic Explosion in Unparalleled Detail * On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as on ...Continue Reading

November 21, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-184 * * NASA Television Airs Launch, Docking of Space Station Cargo Ship * NASA Television will broadcast the Monday, Nov. 25, launch and the Friday, Nov. 29, docking of an unpiloted Russian resupply spacecraft, loaded with almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the six Expedition 38 crew members ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Nov 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 325 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Nov 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1893 S13W91 100 0260 Dkc 07 03 Beta 1895 S17W70 079 0020 Hsx 01 02 Alpha 1896 N09W59 ...Continue Reading

November 20, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu * RELEASE 13-345 * * NASA's Chandra Helps Confirm Evidence of Jet in Milky Way's Black Hole * Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Finally they have found it, in new res ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON HAIYAN This potent storm crossed the Philippines and headed for Indochina in early November 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82420&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Nov 15, 2013 (Posted on Nov 19, 2013 4:53 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natura ...Continue Reading

November 20, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-343 * * NASA Helps Launch Student-Built Satellites as Part of CubeSat Launch Initiative * NASA is beginning to receive confirmation 11 small cubesat research satellites, including the first developed by high school students, that were launched into space Tuesday night from the Virginia coast are operating as planned. The cubesats were included as auxiliary payloads aboard a U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 r ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 689 2013 Nov 20, Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 38 began on Nov 10 with commander Oleg Kotov, and flight engineers FE-2 Sergey Ryazanskiy, FE-3 Michael Hopkins, FE-4 Mikhail Tyurin, FE-5 Rick Mastracchio and FE-6 Koichi Wakata. Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-10M is at Poisk. Cargo ship Progress M-20M is ...Continue Reading