April 12, 2012 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-110 COMMERCIAL PLATFORM OFFERS EXPOSURE AT SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of International Space Station (ISS). NanoRacks LLC will develop and operate the External Platform Program (EP ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 40 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT TO SPEAK AT INTERNATIONAL AVIATION SYMPOSIUM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:45:01 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TO SPEAK AT INTERNATIONAL AVIATION SYMPOSIUM April 11, 2012 Dana Davis Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0933 Report #JA12-003 NASA ASTRONAUT TO SPEAK AT INTERNATIONAL AVIATION SYMPOSIUM HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut R ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 656 2012 Apr 12 Somerville, MA USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Station ------------- Expedition 30 continues with Soyuz TMA-22 docked at Poisk and Soyuz TMA-03M docked to the Rassvet module. Ex-30 commander is Dan Burbank; flight engineers 1 to 5 are Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoliy Ivanishin, Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers, Don Pettit. The Progress M-14M cargo ship is docked at the Pirs module. Th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 12 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 103 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1454 S13E56 158 0020 Cro 02 02 Beta 1455 N07E08 204 0030 Cao 03 06 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

Exp. 30 Flight Engineer Don Pettit writes about the privilege of calling space "home" in his latest #spaceblog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/m7p_   One in a Billion   I often hear someone remark, "The chances of X happening are one in a million," where X could be any number of rare events such as winning the lottery. When numbers become as large as a million, it is difficult for my mind to comprehend them-as compared to tangible objects that I can see, touch, and count. A thousand million mak ...Continue Reading

April 11, 2012 Lauren B. Worley Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1288 lauren.b.worley@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-064 NASA OFFICIALS TO SPEAK AT NATIONAL SPACE SYMPOSIUM WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will provide remarks next week at the 28th Annual National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. The event will be held at The Broadmoor Hotel, located at 1 Lake Ave. in Colorado Springs. Bolden is the featured speaker on Tuesday, April 17, at ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRE IN COLORADO North Fork Fire in Colorado * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77632&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Apr 06, 2012 (Posted on Apr 10, 2012 3:42 PM) COUNTY LINE FIRE IN FLORIDA Drought fueled a large fire near Jacksonville. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77635&sr ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 11 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 102 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1452 N18W65 291 0005 Axx 01 02 Alpha 1454 S13E70 157 0010 Cro 02 02 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (10 April 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Where Is the Hottest Place on Earth? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/HottestSpot/?src=eoa-features Satellite research shows that the world’s hottest spot changes, though the conditions don't. Think dry, rocky, and dark-colored lands...and cities. -------------------- Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nas ...Continue Reading

April 10, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-106 NASA ANNOUNCES STUDENT WINNERS IN SPACE GAME DESIGN CHALLENGE BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- Three school student teams in the fifth through eighth grades have been selected as the winners of NASA's second annual Spaced Out Sports challenge. The students designed sci ...Continue Reading