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

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 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 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 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