Aug. 15, 2012 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 bdickey@nasa.gov@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-041 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SAFETY AND MISSION SUPPORT SERVICES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected A-P-T Research Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., to provide mission assurance, engineering and risk assessment services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The maximum potential value f ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 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 CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-039 NASA SELECTS ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER SERVICES CONTRACTS BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- NASA has selected S&B Infrastructure Ltd. of Houston and CDM-CH2M Hill JV of Fairfax, Va., to provide architect and engineer services under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contracts ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-281 NASA GOES GREEN: NASA SELECTS GREEN PROPELLANT TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that ar ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SOPUTAN VOLCANO Soputan Volcano on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi erupted in early July 2011, and frequent activity continued into August 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78857&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Aug 08, 2012 (Posted on Aug 14, 2012 3:39 PM) ----------- ...Continue Reading

Aug.15, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 12-278 PHOENIX CLUSTER SETS RECORD PACE AT FORMING STARS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the National Science F ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 15 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 228 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1542 S12W33 034 0040 Cao 06 04 Beta 1543 N22W19 020 0250 Cko 07 07 Beta-Gamma 1545 S14 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 August 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Western Wildfires http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78832&src=eoa-iotd * NASA Satellites Pinpoint Volcanic Eruption http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78849&src=eoa-iotd * Saharan Dust Reaches the Americas http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78825&src=eoa-iotd * River Outflow to th ...Continue Reading

Aug. 14, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-038 NASA EXERCISES OPTION ON MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA is exercising an $80.5 million flex option on the Facilities Development and Operations Contract with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md. The level-of-effort flex option takes advantage of hours that were negotiated for the con ...Continue Reading

Aug. 14, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov John Leslie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 301-713-0214 john.leslie@noaa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-037 NASA SELECTS COMBINED DATA SERVICES CONTRACT FOR POLAR SATELLITES WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) of Oslo, Norway, for combined data support services for NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program. This is a firm-fixed price contract with a value of about ...Continue Reading

Aug.14, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-036 NASA SELECTS INTEGRATED PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES AGREEMENTS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has selected three small businesses to provide access to a variety of program support services for the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Under the Marshall Integrated Program ...Continue Reading