April 30, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-027 NASA EXTENDS CREW FLIGHT CONTRACT WITH RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue s ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-067 NASA ASTRONAUT KAREN NYBERG AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE SPACE STATION MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7- 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 9. Th ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2010 Issue Time: 2013 Apr 30 1201 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2009 Begin Time: 2013 Apr 27 0915 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1592 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 120 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. TEXAS STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION NASA ASTRONAUT 2. NASA, NSBRI SELECT 23 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:07:33 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: TEXAS STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION NASA ASTRONAUT April 29, 2013 Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trott ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 30 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 120 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1728 N19W16 215 0020 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1730 S18W20 219 0210 Eai 11 19 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov Graham Scott National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston 713-798-7227 graham.scott@bcm.edu RELEASE: 13-124 NASA, NSBRI SELECT 23 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 23 proposals to help i ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-091 HERSCHEL COMPLETES ITS 'COOL' JOURNEY IN SPACE WASHINGTON -- The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The European S ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUME OVER THE SAHARA DESERT A dust storm blew through the Sahara Desert in late April 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81004&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 24, 2013 (Posted on Apr 26, 2013 1:05 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODING IN THE U.S. MIDWEST A ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-121 NASA PROBE GETS CLOSE-UP VIEWS OF LARGE HURRICANE ON SATURN WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2013 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 tammie.r.letroise-brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-066 TEXAS STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION NASA ASTRONAUT HOUSTON -- NASA Expedition 35 astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station will conduct a live air-to-ground talk with students of Fredricksburg High School in Texas at 12:40 p.m. EDT (11:40 ...Continue Reading