May 22nd 2012 PDT
May 22, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-160 SPACEX DRAGON TRANSPORTS STUDENT EXPERIMENTS TO SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- The SpaceX Dragon capsule, which on Tuesday became the first commercially developed and built spacecraft to launch to the International Space Station, is carrying among its cargo a suite of 15 science experiments designed by students. Known collectively as Aquarius, the experiments will assess the effects of microgravity o ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2012 PDT
May 22, 2012 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov Phil Larson Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President 202-456-6043 plarson@ostp.eop.gov RELEASE: 12-164 STATEMENT BY JOHN P. HOLDREN, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ON LAUNCH OF FALCON 9 ROCKET AND DRAGON SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- Following Tuesday's launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Sci ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2012 PDT
May 22, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-161 SPACEX LAUNCHES NASA DEMONSTRATION MISSION TO SPACE STATION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The second demonstration mission for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program is under way as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2012 PDT
May 22, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-092 NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO ADDRESS MEDIA AFTER SPACEX LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address media representatives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:00 a.m. EDT following Tuesday's SpaceX NASA demonstration flight launch to the International Space Station. The ev ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 May 22 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 143 Issued at 0030Z on 22 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1478 S23W88 133 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1479 N14W66 111 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1482 N15W57 ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2012 PDT
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit shares a video of the solar eclipse as seen from the space station in his latest blog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/p5Q_ *Solar Eclipse from Space* “It is amazing to see an eclipse from orbit,” NASA Astronaut Don Pettit said. “The shadow on Earth looks just like what you see in the physics books and the astronomy book where those folks figured all that out without ever having seen what that shadow looks like.” _› Watch video of the solar eclipse_ _› Listen to the conversation from ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2012 PDT
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit writes about weightlifting in weightlessness in his latest blog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/p5g_ *The Beast* Weightlifting in weightlessness is now my favorite oxymoron. (It has surpassed my previous favorite: reality TV.) Living in weightlessness causes our bodies to slowly degenerate, and for long-duration missions something has to be done to prevent, or at least mitigate, this degeneration. While the reasons are not fully understood, we have discovered an empiric ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2012 PDT
May 21, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-163 NEW NASA APP 2.0 RELEASED FOR IPHONE, IPOD TOUCH WASHINGTON -- NASA released Monday an updated version of the free NASA App for iPhone and iPod touch. The NASA App 2.0 includes several new features and a completely redesigned user interface ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- GLADIATOR FIRE IN ARIZONA A human caused fire on private property originated on May 13 and then spread to Prescott National Forest. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77944&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 16, 2012 (Posted on May 17, 2012 11:23 AM) HAZE OVER NORTHERN CHINA A blanket of haze, fueled in par ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM ALBERTO The first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season formed off the coast of South Carolina on May 19. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77990&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 19, 2012 (Posted on May 21, 2012 9:01 AM) ------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
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