April 13, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Linda Billings George Washington University, Washington 703-635-9799 libillin@gwu.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-067 NASA TELEVISION TO AIR FAMELAB ASTROBIOLOGY FINALS FROM ATLANTA WASHINGTON -- Young scientists are competing to see who is the best communicator. NASA Television will air the FameLab Astrobiology final competition on Monday, April 16, from 7-9 p.m. EDT, live from the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- COUNTY LINE FIRE IN FLORIDA Drought fueled a large fire near Jacksonville. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77652&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 11, 2012 (Posted on Apr 13, 2012 11:33 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Eart ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-112 NASA PLANNING GROUP TAKES KEY STEPS FOR FUTURE MARS EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG), established to assist the agency in developing a new strategy for the exploration of the Red Planet, has begun analyzing options for future robotic missions and enlisting the assistance of scientists and engineers worldwide. NASA is reformulating the Mars Exploration Program to be r ...Continue Reading

Expedition 30 Flight Engineer Don Pettit shares a poem in his latest #spaceblog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/meS_   I Wonder Why Nature has a vivid imagination, more so than any human. By venturing into unknown territory, discoveries will be made that tickle our imagination and enrich our minds.  On the frontier, you can once again see the world through the eyes of a child. I wonder why the sky is up, and why the stars abound? And why the Sun comes up each morn, and why the Earth goes ’round? I wonder what th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 13 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 104 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1454 S12E43 158 0020 Cro 03 03 Beta 1455 N06W05 205 0070 Dai 06 13 Beta 1456 S20W19 ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-065 NASA HOSTS TELECONFERENCE ON STATUS OF NEW MARS PROGRAM PLANS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 13, to provide an update about the framework and schedule of the newly formed Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG). The MPPG was established to construct a coordinated strategy and continue America's leadership role in the exploration of Mars within ...Continue Reading

April 12, 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: 12-109 NASA'S WISE MISSION SEES SKIES ABLAZE WITH BLAZARS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission has revealed more than 200 blazars ...Continue Reading

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