There is 1 message totalling 60 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE RETURNS TO EARTH AFTER FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:58:46 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE RETURNS TO EARTH AFTER FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION May 31, 2012 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jun 01 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 153 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Jun 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 31 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 31/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1490 S13W36 309 0110 Dso 09 06 Beta 1492 S13W11 284 0100 Eso 11 09 Beta 1493 N15E64 ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-023 NASA SELECTS OMNIBUS MULTIDISCIPLINE ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected SGT Inc., of Greenbelt, Md., for the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services contract for the Applied Engineer ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Jennifer Stanfield Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.stanfield@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-181 NASA BEGINS DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM FLIGHT SOFTWARE HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from Boeing. ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-178 NASA SEEKS EARLY STAGE INNOVATIONS FOR SPACE TECHNOLOGIES FROM U.S. UNIVERSITIES WASHINGTON -- NASA is seeking proposals from accredited U.S. universities focused on innovative, early-stage space technologies that will improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft thermal management and optical systems. Each of these technology areas requires dramatic improvements over existing capabilities for fut ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-159 NASA'S HUBBLE SHOWS MILKY WAY IS DESTINED FOR HEAD-ON COLLISION WASHINGTON -- NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SNOW BLANKETS SOUTHERN PATAGONIA Snow covered parts of southern Chile and Argentina in late May 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78140&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 30, 2012 (Posted on May 31, 2012 1:49 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Ha ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-179 SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE RETURNS TO EARTH AFTER FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO SPACE STATION HOUSTON -- SpaceX's Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the Int ...Continue Reading

May 31, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 / 818-393-9011 Jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov agle@jpl.nasa.gov Amy Duncan Sally Ride Science, San Diego, Calif. 858-254-7009 amy@sallyridescience.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-099 STUDENTS NATIONWIDE TO EXHIBIT NASA SPACECRAFT LUNAR IMAGES WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited ...Continue Reading

May 31, 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 Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems 720-407-3193 media.ssg@sncorp.com RELEASE: 12-180 NASA'S COMMERCIAL CREW PARTNER SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION COMPLETES DREAM CHASER FLIGHT TEST MILESTONE LOUISVILLE, Colo. -- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems successfully completed a "captive carry test" of its full-sca ...Continue Reading