May 9, 2013 David. E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-137 NASA STATEMENT ON NEW MANUFACTURING INNOVATION INSTITUTES WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik about Thursday's announcement from the Obama Administration that it is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes supported by five federal agencies -- NASA, the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Notable fires in California in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81085&src=nha *** OLI(Landsat 8) image from Mar 18, 2010 (Posted on May 08, 2013 3:29 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. htt ...Continue Reading

May 09, 2013 David Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Kristy Rochon Development Projects, Inc. Dayton, Ohio 937-229-9079 krochon@daytonregion.com RELEASE: 13-117 NASA PARTNERS WITH OHIO NON-PROFIT ON UNMANNED AIR CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned ...Continue Reading

May 09, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 13-133 NASA'S HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS DEAD STARS 'POLLUTED' WITH PLANET DEBRIS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars are located 150 light-years ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 40 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASAS NEW ORION SPACECRAFT TEAM READY FOR CALIFORNIA INTERVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 09:29:50 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASAS NEW ORION SPACECRAFT TEAM READY FOR CALIFORNIA INTERVIEWS May 8, 2013 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JO13-019 NASA�S NEW ORION SPACECRAFT TEAM READY FOR CALIFORNIA INTERVIE ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 May 09 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 129 Issued at 0030Z on 09 May 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1732 S17W77 157 0080 Dso 05 03 Beta 1734 S18W51 131 0350 Dko 10 12 Beta 1736 S07W67 ...Continue Reading

May 8, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v2.0 data covering the month of April, 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. User should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of April, a ...Continue Reading

May 8, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-023 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO MODIFY MOBILE LAUNCHER WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send humans to an asteroid, Mars a ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 40 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA INVITES MEDIA TO SPEAK WITH DARK MATTER DETECTIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:55:01 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA INVITES MEDIA TO SPEAK WITH DARK MATTER DETECTIVE May 7, 2013 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J13-009 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO SPEAK WITH �DARK MATTER� DETECTIVE HOU ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 May 08 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 128 Issued at 0030Z on 08 May 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1732 S17W63 156 0090 Dso 06 04 Beta 1734 S18W37 130 0370 Eki 11 17 Beta 1736 S07W53 ...Continue Reading