Feb. 6, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-043 ASTRONAUT DON PETTIT SHARES PASSION FOR SCIENCE FROM SPACE HOUSTON -- NASA and the American Physical Society (APS) have begun a partnership to share videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans around the world. NASA astronaut Don Pettit, currently on the orbiting outpost as a member o ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 06 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 37 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1410 N17W57 061 0130 Cso 03 03 Beta 1413 N08W59 063 0030 Cso 03 02 Beta 1414 S05W34 0 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 05 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 36 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1410 N16W44 061 0190 Cso 03 02 Beta 1413 N07W47 064 0070 Dso 04 09 Beta 1414 S06W19 0 ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 83 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA RECEIVES SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF ASTRONAUT APPLICATIONS 2. NASA HOSTS SPECIAL EVENT WITH RECENT SPACE STATION RESIDENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:18:32 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA RECEIVES SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF ASTRONAUT APPLICATIONS Feb. 3, 2012 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headqu ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 04 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 35 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1410 N17W29 059 0190 Cso 05 04 Beta 1413 N08W33 063 0090 Dso 06 15 Beta IA. H-alpha Pla ...Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce the availability of the fourth and final volume in Boris Chertok’s memoirs, /Rockets and People/.  Please see the attached flyer for more information about this volume including ordering information.  The fourth volume is also available in pdf format from _http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol4.pdf_ online.  Biographical information on this giant in Soviet and Russian spaceflight and links to the previous volumes are available from _http://history.nasa.gov/biosa-d.html#C_ online. ...Continue Reading

Feb. 3, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Nicole-cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-041 NASA RECEIVES SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF ASTRONAUT APPLICATIONS HOUSTON -- More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the agency. After a thorough selection process, which i ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 42 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA TO HOST MEDIA TELECON ON SPACE STATION STATUS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:39:40 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA TO HOST MEDIA TELECON ON SPACE STATION STATUS February 2, 2012 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M12-021 NASA T ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 03 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 34 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1410 N18W14 057 0240 Cso 13 13 Beta 1411 S28W55 097 0010 Bxo 05 07 Beta 1413 N08W20 0 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 02, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-042 NASA SEEKS PROPOSALS FOR EDISON SMALL SATELLITE DEMONSTRATIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA is seeking proposals for flight demonstrations of small satellite technologies with the goal of increasing the technical capabilities and range of uses for this emerging category of spacecraft. Small satellites typically weigh less than 400 pounds (180 kg) and are generally launched as ...Continue Reading