May 16, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-143 NASA'S ASTEROID SAMPLE RETURN MISSION MOVES INTO DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a confi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 May 16 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 136 Issued at 0030Z on 16 May 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1743 N21W28 014 0090 Dao 09 05 Beta 1744 N05W12 359 0070 Cao 12 23 Beta 1745 N13E12 ...Continue Reading

May 15, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Krystal Scordo Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems 720-407-3192 krystal.scordo@sncorp.com RELEASE: 13-143 SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION DREAM CHASER TESTING BEGINS AT NASA DRYDEN, LANGLEY EDWARDS, Calif. -- Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems Dream Chaser flight vehicle arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Wednesday to begin tests of it ...Continue Reading

May 15, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Daniel Stolte University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-4402 stolte@email.arizona.edu RELEASE: 13-142 NASA PROBE COUNTS SPACE ROCK IMPACTS ON MARS WASHINGTON -- Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of com ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE MAHASEN Mahasen formed as a tropical storm over the northern Indian Ocean in early May 2013 and moved northward over the Bay of Bengal. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81125&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 14, 2013 (Posted on May 14, 2013 2:54 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 up ...Continue Reading

May 15, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982 michele.johnson@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-078 NASA HOSTS KEPLER SPACECRAFT STATUS TELECONFERENCE TODAY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the ...Continue Reading

May 15, 2013 Lauren B. Worley Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1288 lauren.b.worley@nasa.gov Lori J. Rachul Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-8806 lori.j.rachul@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-077 DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR TOURS NASA'S NORTHEAST OHIO FACILITIES, MEETS MEDIA THURSDAY CLEVELAND -- Media representatives are invited to join NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver as she visits the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Thursday, May 16 and tours facil ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 104 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SPACE STATION EXPEDITION 35 ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN, EXPEDITION 36 BEGINS 2. NASA ADMINISTRATOR VISITS HOUSTON, MEETS MEDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:48:20 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SPACE STATION EXPEDITION 35 ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN, EXPEDITION 36 BEGINS May 13, 2013 Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-511 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 May 15 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 135 Issued at 0030Z on 15 May 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1741 S21W43 043 0010 Bxo 03 05 Beta 1742 N29W19 018 0010 Hrx 00 01 Alpha 1743 N22W12 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 May 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Dust Plumes off Argentina http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81120&src=eoa-iotd * View of the Great Salt Lake from Skylab http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81112&src=eoa-iotd * Laguna Verde http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81106&src=eoa-iotd * Swirls in the Waters off France ht ...Continue Reading