Jan. 15, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-018 NASA ISSUES 2013 CALL FOR VISIONARY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program is looking for visionary advanced concepts. This year's annual call for NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new missions or significantly im ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 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 15 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1649 S15W62 204 0030 Hax 05 02 Alpha 1650 S30W52 194 0050 Hax 01 01 Alpha 1652 N18W44 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-017 CORRECTION: NASA, SPACE STATION PARTNERS ANNOUNCE FUTURE CREW MEMBERS Corrected to update crew mission dates HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have named several future International Space Station expedition crews. They include NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts. Swanson was b ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kim Henry Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 kimberly.m.henry@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-020 NASA AWARDS SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT GRANTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The agency is providing approximately $2.25 million that will be shared by all the pr ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-017 NASA, SPACE STATION PARTNERS ANNOUNCE FUTURE CREW MEMBERS HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have named several future International Space Station expedition crews. They include NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts. Swanson was born in Syracuse, N.Y., but considers Steamboat Spring ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov John Ewald National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 240-429-6127 john.ewald@noaa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-014 NASA, NOAA TO ANNOUNCE 2012 GLOBAL TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE CONDITIONS JAN. 15 WASHINGTON -- U.S. government climate experts will announce new data on global temperature conditions in 2012 dur ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 4 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=80141&src=nha *** VIIRS(Suomi NPP) image from Jan 09, 2013 (Posted on Jan 11, 2013 1:28 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80132&src=nha *** MODI ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- A RIVER OF HAZE Thick haze hung over India and Bangladesh during January 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80148&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 11, 2013 (Posted on Jan 11, 2013 4:03 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a servi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-016 NASA HOSTS JAN. 15 TELECONFERENCE ON CURIOSITY ROVER PROGRESS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. The Mars Science Laboratory Project and its C ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 David S. Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov Ted Huetter The Museum of Flight 206-768-7105 / 206-455-5360 thuetter@museumofflight.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-015 NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO TOUR SEATTLE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT JAN. 15 WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will tour the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at the Seattle Museum of Flight on Tuesday, Jan.15. News media are invited to join Bolden, who ...Continue Reading