There are 3 messages totalling 135 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA BRINGS WONDER OF SPACE STATION TO NORTH CAROLINA 2. NASA CONTINUES ORION PARACHUTE TESTING FOR FUTURE TEST FLIGHT 3. NASA AWARDS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:48:57 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA BRINGS WONDER OF SPACE STATION TO NORTH CAROLINA April 18, 2012 William Jeffs / Jennifer Knotts J ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 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 110 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1459 S16E28 093 0260 Ekc 11 20 Beta 1460 N16E12 108 0170 Dsi 07 13 Beta 1461 N13E50 ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-074 NASA MARKS EARTH DAY WITH PUBLIC EVENTS AND ONLINE ACTIVITIES WASHINGTON -- NASA will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day this week with several live and online activities to engage the public about the agency's mission to use space to explore and better understand our planet. NASA will host three days of displays and presentations open to the public on the National Mall in Washingt ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-121 NASA MISSION WANTS AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS TO TARGET ASTEROIDS WASHINGTON -- A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroids with orbits that occasionally bring them close to the Earth. Startin ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-108 NASA AWARDS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has selected DynCorp International LLC of Ft. Worth, Texas, to provide aircraft maintenance and operational support services under a contract potentially worth $176.9 million. DynCorp will perform ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Wendy Lewis Space Systems/Loral 650-852-5188 lewisw@ssd.loral.com CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-107 NASA AWARDS LORAL CONTRACT FOR LASER COMM PAYLOAD FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program has awarded Space System/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., a $3 million contract to initiate the process of hosting a space laser communications relay demonstration terminal payload aboard a Loral co ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRE IN KUWAIT In mid-April 2012, a fire broke out in a tire dump near Al Jahrah, Kuwait. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77678&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 17, 2012 (Posted on Apr 17, 2012 3:01 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER IRAQ Dust plumes hovered ove ...Continue Reading

April 17, 2012 Tellus Release 5.0 The GRACE project has released a new version of Level 2/spherical harmonic data, Release 5.0 (RL05).  As the new RL05 data become available, the Tellus mass grids will be reprocessed with it.  It will take some time for the GRACE project to complete reprocessing the entire time series so the Tellus Release 4 (RL04) and RL05 will be distributed simultaneously. Thus users will need to change any bookmarks they may have as there are now 2 ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 168 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS SPACE WITH INDIANA BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS 2. COVERAGE SET FOR NASA/SPACEX LAUNCH AND MISSION TO SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:47:09 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS SPACE WITH INDIANA BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS April 17, 2012 Brenda Cabaniss Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-8860 Report #JA12-004 NA ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (17 April 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Fire in Kuwait http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77678&src=eoa-iotd * North America Swelters in March Heat http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77671&src=eoa-iotd * Shanghai At Night: A Growing City http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77658&src=eoa-iotd * Lakshadweep Islands http:/ ...Continue Reading