Dec. 20, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-064 NASA SELECTS INTERNET SERVICES AGREEMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected InfoZen Inc. of Rockville, Md., for the Web Enterprise Service Technologies prime blanket purchase agreement to support agency websites. Orders against this blanket purchase agreement (BPA) will be issued on a firm-fixed-price basis. NASA estimates the volume of purchases through this BPA will be $40 milli ...Continue Reading

Dec. 20, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4787 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-063 NASA AWARDS FLIGHT PROJECTS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA has selected SEMI USA Corporation of Houston to construct the Flight Projects Building at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This firm-fixed-price contract is valued ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ROCKY MOUNTAIN SNOW Ahead of the 2012 winter solstice, a storm dropped snow over much of the Rocky Mountains. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80035&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 19, 2012 (Posted on Dec 20, 2012 12:15 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Na ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 128 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT DAVID WOLF LEAVES AGENCY 2. JSC ACCELERATION CENTER HELPS BUSINESSES CAPITALIZE ON NASA TECH 3. NASA ASTRONAUT SANDRA MAGNUS LEAVES AGENCY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:46:04 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT DAVID WOLF LEAVES AGENCY December 19, 2012 Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J12-023 NASA A ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Dec 20 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 355 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Dec 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1633 S07E13 111 0260 Eko 12 09 Beta 1634 S13E14 110 0060 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 1635 N09E58 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- VOG FROM AMBRYM VOLCANO Ambrym Volcano in the Vanuatu archipelago emitted an extensive plumes of volcanic fog (vog) during May, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80014&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Dec 13, 2012 (Posted on Dec 18, 2012 2:14 PM) --------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Dec. 19, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-437 NEW TRIO LIFTS OFF TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- With temperatures well below freezing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency launched Wednesday to the International Space Station at ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Dec 19 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 354 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Dec 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1631 N23W89 227 0080 Dso 09 05 Beta 1633 S07E27 111 0320 Eki 12 13 Beta-Gamma 1634 S13 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (18 December 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Ambrym's Lava Lakes http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80014&src=eoa-iotd * Korea and the Yellow Sea http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79796&src=eoa-iotd * Agricultural Fields Under Snow, China http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80004&src=eoa-iotd * Snow on Sand near Dunhuang, ...Continue Reading

Dec. 18, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George 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 RELEASE: 12-439 NASA'S NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE ARRIVES AT KENNEDY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-K, arrived Tuesday at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...Continue Reading