Jan. 11, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-003 NASA SELECTS SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Computer Science Corporation of Falls Church, Va., to support the Computational and Information Science Technology Office (CISTO) at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Cen ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2013 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-019 NASA SELECTS HIGH-PERFORMING INTERNS AS STUDENT AMBASSADORS WASHINGTON -- NASA has inducted 86 top-performing interns into the 2013 NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community, a vital component of the agency's ongoing effort to engage undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering, mathematics and technology (STEM) research and interactive opportunities. This fifth group of student am ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Mike Gold Bigelow Aerospace 240-235-6016 mgold@bigelowaerospace.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-011 NASA, BIGELOW OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS SPACE STATION EXPANDABLE MODULE WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a new addition to the International Space Station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will demonstrate the benefits of this space habitat technology for ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-013 NASA SETS TDRS-K/ATLAS V LAUNCH EVENTS COVERAGE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the launch of Tracking ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- THE SUMMER OF 2012-13 BRINGS FIRES TO AUSTRALIA Wildfires burned in Australia during 2012 and 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80132&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 06, 2013 (Posted on Jan 10, 2013 3:29 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE NARELLE Narelle form ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 11 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 11 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1642 S24W56 250 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1644 N15W44 238 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1649 S15W07 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2013 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-014 NASA'S GALEX REVEALS THE LARGEST-KNOWN SPIRAL GALAXY WASHINGTON -- The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-016 MAJOR NASA AIR POLLUTION STUDY TO FLY OVER CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- A multi-year NASA airborne science mission is on its way to California to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality globally from space. Two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments will fly o ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Sarah McDonnell Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 617-253-8923 s_mcd@mit.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-012 NASA, MIT, DARPA HOST FOURTH ANNUAL STUDENT ROBOTIC CHALLENGE JAN. 11 WASHINGTON -- NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the United States and abroad for ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Rani Gran Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2483 rani.c.gran@nasa.gov Jon Campbell U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. 703-648-4180 joncampbell@usgs.gov RELEASE: 13-015 NASA PREPARES FOR LAUNCH OF NEXT EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE WASHINGTON -- NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological ...Continue Reading