May 24, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-021 NASA AWARDS ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING CONTRACT FOR BRIDGES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA selected URS Corporation of Orlando, Fla., to perform architecture and engineering studies and provide designs and other professional services to replace and restore brid ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Natasha Metzler Carnegie Institution of Washington 202-939-1142 nmetzler@carnegiescience.edu RELEASE: 12-171 NASA FUNDED RESEARCH SHOWS EXISTENCE OF REDUCED CARBON ON MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can originate ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-096 NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT UPCOMING NUSTAR LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 30 at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), a mission to hunt for black holes. The event will be held in the Ja ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE BUD Bud formed as a tropical storm over the eastern Pacific Ocean in late May 2012 and strengthened into a hurricane. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78084&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 23, 2012 (Posted on May 24, 2012 12:22 PM) STRONG RAIN IN SOUTHERN CHINA Days of torrential rain ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov Susan Wells The Boeing Co. 321-264-8580 susan.h.wells@boeing.com RELEASE: 12-170 NASA COMMERCIAL CREW PARTNER BOEING MEETS SOFTWARE MILESTONE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Boeing Company has successfully completed a new milestone in the development of software that will operate its Crew Space Transpo ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-169 NASA RECEIVES WIDESPREAD CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE MARS MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas. About 400 concepts or abstracts were submitted to the Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration Workshop in Houston, which was organized to gather input ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-093 LANDSAT CONTEST OFFERS VIEW OF LOCAL LANDSCAPE CHANGE FROM SPACE WASHINGTON -- To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are holding a contest that will offer winners customized satellite views of changing local landscapes. All U.S. citizens are eligible to enter the "My American Landscape: A Space Chron ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Alan Zack X Prize Foundation, Playa Vista, Calif. 310-741-4880 alan.zack@xprize.org RELEASE: 12-168 NASA OFFERS GUIDELINES TO PROTECT HISTORIC SITES ON THE MOON WASHINGTON -- NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future scienc ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1904 Issue Time: 2012 May 24 1241 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 May 24 1235 UTC Station: GOES13 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 Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upda ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 151 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA AIRS VIDEO OF SOLAR ECLIPSE AS SEEN FROM SPACE 2. NASA AND HOUSTON SCHOOL PARTNER TO ENGAGE FUTURE EXPLORERS 3. UPDATED COVERAGE FOR NASA/SPACEX MISSION TO STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:12:26 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA AIRS VIDEO OF SOLAR ECLIPSE AS SEEN FROM SPACE May 23, 2012 Amiko Kauderer Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5 ...Continue Reading