May 16th 2012 PST
What station crews call a "mission" is a bit more complicated than expected, says Flight Engineer Don Pettit in his latest blog entry. _http://bit.ly/JfqGqF_ *What Makes a Mission Name?* What space station crews call our "mission" is a bit more complicated than what you might think. Under normal operations, there are six crew members living on board station. We send up a three-person crew in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft four times a year, and the launches and landings are generally timed for spring ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
May 16, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-087 UPDATED COVERAGE FOR NASA/SPACEX LAUNCH AND MISSION TO STATION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The second SpaceX demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) is scheduled for ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
May 16, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-157 NASA SURVEY COUNTS POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS WASHINGTON -- Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new informati ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
May 16, 2012 Lauren Worley Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1288 lauren.b.worley@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-085 NASA'S DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT WITH INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will participate in a teleconference on Thursday, May 17, at 2 p.m. EDT with representatives of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation to brief journalists on the future of human commercial spaceflight. Former ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
May 16, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lawren Markle California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 626-395-3226 lmarkle@caltech.edu RELEASE: 12-155 NASA LENDS GALAXY EVOLUTION EXPLORER TO CALTECH WASHINGTON -- NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos. In a first-of-a-kind move fo ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1903 Issue Time: 2012 May 16 0651 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1902 Begin Time: 2012 May 10 1415 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3226 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading
May 16th 2012 PST
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 May 16 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 137 Issued at 0030Z on 16 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1476 N10W56 180 0260 Fho 17 12 Beta 1477 S22W19 143 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1478 S24W10 ...Continue Reading
May 15th 2012 PST
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (15 May 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Smoke Plume from Baikal over Bering? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77926&src=eoa-iotd * Dust Storm in the Middle East http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77914&src=eoa-iotd * Etosha Pan, Namibia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77907&src=eoa-iotd * Changes in Canberra http:/ ...Continue Reading
May 15th 2012 PST
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE OVER NORTHERN CHINA A blanket of haze, fueled in part by Russian wildfires, hung over China in early May. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77919&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 10, 2012 (Posted on May 14, 2012 5:17 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- SMOKE OVER THE BERI ...Continue Reading
May 15th 2012 PST
In his latest blog, Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit wonders what his address might be aboard the International Space Station. _http://go.usa.gov/pi5_ *My Address in Space* If my family and friends were to write me a letter, what address would they use? When I type my name on one of my stories, what address should I give? It occurred to me that Space Station is a place as deserving of an address as other frontier stations like McMurdo Base or the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Base in Antarctica. These places have ...Continue Reading
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