September 13, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-142 * * LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch * NASA Television will provide extensive coverage live from Kazakhstan of the Sept. 25 launch of three crew members of Expedition 37-38, as they begin their journey to the International Space Station. Michael Hopkins of NASA and Oleg Kotov and Sergey R ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 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 256 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1838 S05W25 224 0010 Axx 01 02 Alpha 1839 S12W52 252 0010 Bxo 01 01 Beta 1840 S11W19 ...Continue Reading

September 12, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850jccook@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-280 * * NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey into Interstellar Space * NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data i ...Continue Reading

September 12, 2013 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-148 * * NASA, Honeywell Get Students Pumped Up for Back to School with FMA Live! * Students at Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C., will start their school year off with a high-energy, hip-hop physics show Monday, Sept. 16, when FMA Live! Forces in Motion kicks off its 2013 schedule. The first show begins at 9 a.m. EDT. Using live actors, hip-hop dance, music videos, inter ...Continue Reading

September 12, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514villard@stsci.edu * RELEASE 13-282 * * Hubble Uncovers Largest Known Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter * Hubble Space Telescope image of largest known population of globular clusters, in Abell 1689 galaxy grouping. Image Credit: NASA/ESA NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known populati ...Continue Reading

September 12, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle/Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-0850agle@jpl.nasa.gov / jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov/ * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-147 * * NASA News Conference Today To Discuss Voyager Spacecraft * NASA will host a news conference today at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), to discuss NASA's Voyager mission. It is related to a paper to be published in the journal Science, which ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 154 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. San Antonio Native Earns NASA JSC POWER of One Award 2. NASA TV Coverage Set for Orbital Sciences Demonstration Mission 3. Space Station Crew Lands, Wrapping Up 166 Days in Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:08:54 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: San Antonio Native Earns NASA JSC POWER of One Award September 11, 2013 Megan Sumner Johnson Space Center, Hou ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 12 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 255 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1838 S04W13 226 0010 Axx 02 03 Alpha 1839 S12W40 252 0020 Cro 04 04 Beta 1840 S12W03 ...Continue Reading

September 11, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v2.0 data covering the month of August 2013. Aquarius v2.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS.  Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v2.0 documentation package) are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of ...Continue Reading

For those interested in Pluto and planetary missions, Please join us next Thursday, September 19, 2013, at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT for our next History Quarterly Speaker, Dr. Mike Neufeld.  A curator in the Space History Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Mike is well known for his incisive, carefully researched, award–winning works, including: "The Rocket and the Reich," and "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War."  Mike will be speaking to us about his latest resea ...Continue Reading