Aug. 20, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-154 NASA TO ANNOUNCE NEW PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSION TODAY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EDT today to discuss the selection of a new Discovery-class mission that will further NASA's exploration of the solar system. The selection will be the 12th in NASA's series of Discovery-class missions. The panelists for the briefing are: -- John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate ...Continue Reading

Aug. 20, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Rob Gutro NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4044 robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-153 MEDIA INVITED TO NASA AIRBORNE HURRICANE MISSION MEDIA DAY WASHINGTON -- NASA is preparing to send unmanned scientific aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean to study tropical cyclones and the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensification. Reporters are invited to view NASA's Global ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-38 2012 August 19 at 7:53 p.m. MDT (2012 August 20 0153 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For August 13-19 Category R1(Minor) radio blackout were observed on 17 and 18 August and Category R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts observed on 18 August due to flare activity from Region 1548. Outlook For August 20-26 No space weather storms are expected. Data used t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 20 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 233 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1543 N23W86 020 0180 Dso 06 03 Beta 1546 N16E28 266 0050 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1547 N06W04 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 19 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 232 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1543 N23W74 021 0300 Hhx 04 03 Alpha 1546 N16E44 263 0050 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1547 N06E09 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 18 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 231 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1543 N24W59 020 0320 Cko 06 05 Beta 1546 N16E56 264 0050 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1547 N05E21 ...Continue Reading

In her latest blog entry, Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Suni Williams discusses the “mixed bag” of activities the crew performs on the station. _http://go.usa.gov/75y_   *Mixed Bag* The past week sort of defines long duration space fliers.  We certainly don’t do the same thing every day, and every day was different with different types of activities for all of us.  There is an awesome group of people on the ground – the planners – who know what all the constraints are for all the activities we need to d ...Continue Reading

Aug. 17, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov DC Agle / Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278 agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-287 NASA CURIOSITY TEAM PINPOINTS SITE FOR FIRST DRIVE, FIRST LASER USE ON TAP THIS WEEKEND WASHINGTON -- The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The t ...Continue Reading

Aug. 17, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-042 NASA AWARDS CALTECH FIVE-YEAR JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena a new five-year contract to manage the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The contractor's primary mission is ...Continue Reading

Aug. 17, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-286 NASA ROCKET MISSION CARRYING UNIVERSITY STUDENT EXPERIMENTS WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- University students will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket. The launch will take place between 6:30 and 10 a ...Continue Reading