Aug. 7, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rob Wyman Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., 757-864-6120 robert.d.wyman@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-034 NASA USES TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND AEROSPACE MISSION SUPPORT CONTRACT OPTION HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA has elected to exercise the first option of the Technology, Engineering and Aerospace Mission Support contract (TEAMS 2) that was awarded to Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. of Hampton, Va., ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO Ernesto strengthened to a tropical storm in early August 2012, and headed for the Yucatan Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78783&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 06, 2012 (Posted on Aug 06, 2012 5:04 PM) TYPHOON HAIKUI Haikui strengthened to a typhoon off the co ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Gray Creech Dryden Flight Research Center 661-276-2662 gray.creech-1@nasa.gov Tom Koehler Boeing Research & Technology Communications 425-373-2921 thomas.j.koehler@boeing.com RELEASE: 12-259 TRANSFORMED X-48C FLIES SUCCESSFULLY Edwards AFB, Calif. -- The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The aircraf ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-145 BRIEFING SET TO PREVIEW TWO SPACEWALKS FROM SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA will preview a pair of spacewalks involving U.S., Russian and Japanese crew members aboard the International Space Station at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 14. The briefing will be broadcast on NASA Television from the agency's Johnson Space Center ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Geoffrey Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-146 NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON UPCOMING RADIATION BELT STORM PROBES LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 9 to discuss the upcoming launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), a mission to study Earth's radiation belt ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 42 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SMOKEY BEAR TO CELEBRATE 68TH BIRTHDAY AT MISSION CONTROL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:06:50 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SMOKEY BEAR TO CELEBRATE 68TH BIRTHDAY AT MISSION CONTROL August 6, 2012 Michael Hernandez / Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-792-7457 / 281-483-6270 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H12-266 SMOK ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 07 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 220 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1532 S19W80 186 0150 Hsx 05 01 Alpha 1535 N19W29 135 0080 Cso 04 04 Beta 1537 N13W04 ...Continue Reading

In her latest blog entry, Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Suni Williams recaps the crew’s busy week.  _http://go.nasa.gov/Mg2J3w_   *Comings and Goings* People always ask if it gets boring up here.  I can unequivocally say NEVER!  It seems like something is always happening.  We were talking about all the activities we do in one day, and how they can range from vacuuming, to changing out the toilet can, to drawing blood, taking acoustic measurements, to ultra sounding your heart, to capturing an ...Continue Reading

Aug. 06, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster / D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 / 818-393-9011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / agle@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-269 NASA'S CURIOSITY ROVER CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF LANDING PASADENA, Calif. -- An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foo ...Continue Reading

Aug. 6, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-033 NASA SELECTS STRATEGIC ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES CONTRACT HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has selected Analytical Services Inc. (ASI) of Huntsville, Ala., to provide strategic research and analysis and communications support services at t ...Continue Reading