Jonathan's Space Report No. 666 2012 Sep 5 Somerville, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- On the ISS, Expedition 32 continues with astronauts Gennadiy Padalka, Sergey Revin, Joseph Acaba, Yuriy Malenchenko, Sunita Willams and Akihiko Hoshide. On Aug 30 astronauts Williams and Hoshide made spacewalk US EVA-18 from the Quest airlock using spacesuits EMU 3011 and 3015 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2012 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-175 NASA TELEVISION LIMITED TO PUBLIC CHANNEL DURING PLANNED MAINTENANCE SEPT. 7 WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will perform system maintenance that will affect satellite distribution on Friday, Sept. 7, from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT. During this planned outage, only NASA TV's Public Channel (Program 101) will be available. NASA TV's other three channels (Media, Education and Space Station Views) will ...Continue Reading

Sept. 05, 2012 David Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886 / 757-244-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-309 NEW NASA SPACE TECHNOLOGY APP EDUCATES USERS AT HYPERSONIC SPEEDS WASHINGTON -- Want to try your hand at landing an inflatable spacecraft? All you need is a smart phone, a computer or a tablet. NASA has released a new educational computer Web game based on its Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodyna ...Continue Reading

Sept. 05, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-168 NASA CREW NEWS CONFERENCE TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION EXPEDITIONS HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold an Expedition 34 and 35 crew briefing Thursday, Sept. 13, to preview the upcoming missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadc ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle / Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278 agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-174 NASA TO HOST TELECONFERENCE ABOUT MARS CURIOSITY ROVER PROGRESS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Sept. 6, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. T ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Karen Jenvey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 karen.jenvey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-307 NASA SELECTS SCIENCE TEAMS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams are from the University of Washington; ...Continue Reading

September 5, 2012 Today or in the next few days, Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) users will receive an email invitation from CFI Group on behalf of NASA. This message will ask you to participate in a web-based survey of NASA Earth Science data and services. PO.DAAC is one of twelve NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers evaluated by this survey. The purpose of this survey is to help PODAAC assess cu ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE RED SEA Dust blew off the coast of Sudan and over the Red Sea in early September 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79095&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 01, 2012 (Posted on Sep 05, 2012 1:48 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natu ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-308 NEW NASA BOOK REVEALS PRESSURE SUITS ARE HEIGHT OF FASHION WASHINGTON -- NASA has published a colorful, picture-filled book that details the development and use of the protective clothing worn by test pilots, astronauts and others as they soar high above Earth. "Dressing for Altitude: U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits -- Wiley Post to Space Shuttle" provides a 526-page survey of the partial- ...Continue Reading

Sept. 05, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-305 NASA VOYAGE SET TO EXPLORE LINK BETWEEN SEA SALTINESS AND CLIMATE WASHINGTON -- A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed ...Continue Reading