Dec. 21, 2011 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: 11-425 TRIO HEADS FOR HOLIDAY REUNION WITH SPACE STATION RESIDENTS HOUSTON -- NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M craft at 7:16 a.m. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Dec 21 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 355 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Dec 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1374 S19W90 352 0050 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1376 N19W46 308 0040 Dai 04 14 Beta 1377 N12W40 ...Continue Reading

Dec. 20, 2011 Michael Cabbage Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-415 NASA ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR HUMAN EXPLORATION OF DEEP SPACE, FOSTERS COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT AND MAKES MAJOR DISCOVERIES IN 2011 WASHINGTON -- In 2011, NASA began developing a heavy-lift rocket for the human exploration of deep space, helped foster a new era of commercial spaceflight and technology breakthroughs, fully utilized a newly complete space station, and made major discoveries about the universe we live ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM WASHI Tropical Storm Washi inundated the Philippines with heavy rain in mid-December 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76710&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 19, 2011 (Posted on Dec 19, 2011 6:46 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76702&src=nha ...Continue Reading

Dec. 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982 michele.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-421 NASA DISCOVERS FIRST EARTH-SIZE PLANETS BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM MOFFET FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11-56 2011 December 20 at 10:20 a.m. MST (2011 December 20 1720 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 12-18 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For December 21-27 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Service ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 651 2011 Dec 20 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Station ------------- After the arrival of Soyuz TMA-22 at Poisk on Nov 16, Expedition 29 continued with commander Mike Fossum and flight engineers FE-1 Anton Shkaplerov, FE-2 Anatoliy Ivanishin, FE-3 Dan Burbank, FE-4 Sergey Volkov, and FE-5 Satoshi Furukawa aboard the Station. Soyuz TMA-02M was docked at Rassvet, and Progress M- ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 61 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STATION CREW SET TO LAUNCH TO A NEW HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:15:23 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STATION CREW SET TO LAUNCH TO A NEW HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Dec. 19, 2011 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M11-251 STATION CREW SET TO LAUNCH TO A NEW H ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Dec 20 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 354 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Dec 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1374 S18W76 351 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1375 N08W83 357 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1376 N19W31 ...Continue Reading

Dec. 19, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-416 MATURING TECHNOLOGY: NASA SELECTS 85 SMALL BUSINESS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS FOR CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 85 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase II contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $63 million. NASA will award the contracts ...Continue Reading