May 23, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-095 NASA HOSTS GLOBAL VIEWING EVENTS FOR RARE ASTRONOMICAL REUNION WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will air a live program starting at 5:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 5, showcasing the celestial phenomenon of the planet Venus trekking across the face of the sun. The rare event, known as the Venus Transit, will not occur again until 2117. The transit occurs when Venus passes ...Continue Reading

May 23, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 tperrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-094 UPDATED COVERAGE FOR NASA/SPACEX MISSION TO STATION WASHINGTON -- The SpaceX second demonstration mission for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program is under way, and NASA is updating its coverage of the Dragon spacecraft's flight to the International Space Statio ...Continue Reading

May 23, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-165 "WHAT IS NASA, ALEX?" NEW TREBEK VIDEO PROMOTES NASA IN YOUR LIFE WASHINGTON -- The king of quiz shows, Alex Trebek, is helping answer the question, "How does NASA affect our daily lives?" The host of the long-running syndicated program "Jeopardy" is featured in a new public service announcement released Wednesday. In the video, Trebek points out that much of the techn ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 May 24 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 145 Issued at 0030Z on 24 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1482 N15W84 103 0190 Cso 05 03 Beta 1483 S24W79 098 0030 Cro 02 03 Beta 1484 N11W56 ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 193 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SPACEX LAUNCHES NASA DEMONSTRATION MISSION TO SPACE STATION 2. STATION CREW TO TAKE QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT 3. NASA, NSBRI SELECT 29 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:54:19 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SPACEX LAUNCHES NASA DEMONSTRATION MISSION TO SPACE STATION May 22, 2012 Josh Byerly Johnson Spa ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 May 23 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 144 Issued at 0030Z on 23 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1479 N13W80 112 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1482 N14W71 103 0240 Dso 06 04 Beta 1483 S25W67 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (22 May 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * World of Change: Columbia Glacier, Alaska http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/columbia_glacier.php?src=eoa-features Since 1980, the volume of this glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. Climate change may have nudged the process along, but mechanical forces have played the largest ...Continue Reading

May 22, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries / William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov Brad Thomas National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston 713-798-7595 rbthomas@bcm.edu RELEASE: 12-162 NASA, NSBRI SELECT 29 PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT CREW HEALTH ON MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of H ...Continue Reading

May 22, 2012 The Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) Ocean Surface Wind Components time series has been extended through 30 June 2011. This additional year of data extends the CCMP climate data record (CDR) by 6 months, for a total of 24 years, starting on 1 July 1987. Due to the loss of QuikSCAT’s ability to retrieve wind vectors since 22 November 2009, the CCMP analysis through 2011 does not assimilate any scatterometer vector wind data. Additionally, SSM/I data from DMSP ...Continue Reading

May 22, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-090 STATION CREW TO TAKE QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT HOUSTON -- International Space Station crew members will answer questions from reporters following the scheduled hatch opening of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. Three of the six Expedition 31 station residents will be available during a new ...Continue Reading