March 22, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Dan Huot Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-011 NASA AWARDS ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACTS HOUSTON -- NASA has selected four Texas companies to perform architecture and engineering services at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This will include work at Ellington Field, the Sonny Carter Training Facility an ...Continue Reading

March 22, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov Caroline McCall Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 617-253-1682 cmcall5@mit.edu RELEASE: 12-093 NASA'S GRAIL MOONKAM RETURNS FIRST STUDENT-SELECTED LUNAR IMAGES WASHINGTON -- One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar su ...Continue Reading

March 22, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-1357 priscilla.r.vega@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-050 NASA INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS SYMPOSIUM MARCH 27-29 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium will be held March 27-29 at the Westin Pasadena Hotel, 191 North Los Robles Ave., in Pasadena, Calif. The NIAC examines early stage concepts that may lead to advanced ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1882 Issue Time: 2012 Mar 22 0507 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1881 Begin Time: 2012 Mar 10 0410 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 28402 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 Se ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 22 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 82 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1433 N09W69 199 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1434 S22W77 207 0050 Cso 06 02 Beta 1435 S24W90 ...Continue Reading

March 21, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-049 UPDATED MEDIA ACCREDITATION DEADLINES FOR NASA/SPACEX LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is updating media accreditation deadlines for the agency's second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight launch. A Space Exploration Technologies (Sp ...Continue Reading

March 21, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Jeannette P. Owens Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2990 jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-010 NASA AWARDS PROTECTIVE SERVICES CONTRACT CLEVELAND -- NASA has awarded Linxx Global Solutions of Virginia Beach, Va., a contract to provide protective services at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The firm-fixed-price contract begins April 1, wi ...Continue Reading

March 21, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-047 NASA ASTRONAUT TO NAME GLOBAL WINNERS IN YOUTUBE SPACE LAB CONTEST WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut Suni Williams will announce Thursday the two winners of the YouTube Space Lab contest, a global science competition that challenges 14-18 year-old students to design a science experiment for the International Space Station. The awards ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. EDT in the Newseum's Knight Room at 555 Pen ...Continue Reading

March 21, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-089 EXPERIMENTAL PAYLOADS SELECTED FOR COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 24 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reus ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE MIDDLE EAST A dust storm blew across the Arabian Peninsula in mid- to late March 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77475&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Mar 20, 2012 (Posted on Mar 20, 2012 4:52 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- MAGNI ...Continue Reading