There is 1 message totalling 54 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO OUTLINE CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE HUMAN EXPLORATION MISSIONS TO MARS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:51:18 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO OUTLINE CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE HUMAN EXPLORATION MISSIONS TO MARS Nov. 17, 2011 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Nov 18 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 322 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Nov 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1341 N09W76 053 0080 Dso 09 03 Beta 1342 N16W87 063 0110 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1343 N27W64 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 17, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-1357 priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-391 NASA ORBITER CATCHES MARS SAND DUNES IN MOTION WASHINGTON -- Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the planet's sandy surface is more dynamic ...Continue Reading

Nov. 17, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Lee Keller Seattle Museum of Flight 425-898-2700/206-799-3805 lee@thekellergroup.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-235 SEATTLE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT HOSTS NASA FUTURE FORUM DEC. 9 WASHINGTON -- The second NASA Future Forum of 2011 will be held at The Museum of Flight in Seattle on Friday, Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PST. The forum will bring together NASA officials and local business and commercial space leaders to disc ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Nov 17 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 321 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Nov 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1340 S08W83 072 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1341 N09W64 054 0130 Dso 09 05 Beta 1342 N15W73 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2011 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-389 NASA NAMED ONE OF BEST PLACES TO WORK IN GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA remains one of the best places to work in the federal government. In a survey released today by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization, the agency retains its ranking of number five. "Those of us at NASA know it's a great place to work." said NASA Administrator ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Marc Airhart University of Texas at Austin 512-471-2241 mairhart@jsq.utexas.edu RELEASE: 11-386 NASA PROBE DATA SHOW EVIDENCE OF LIQUID WATER ON ICY EUROPA WASHINGTON -- Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa. The data suggest there is ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 650 2011 Nov 16 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Station ------------- The Progress M-10M cargo ship undocked from the Pirs module at 0904 UTC on Oct 29; the craft fired its deorbit engines at 1210 UTC and reentered over the Pacific at 1248 UTC. Progress M-13M was launched on Oct 30, reaching orbit at 1019 UTC to sighs of relief from the ISS project. It successfully docked with ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2011 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-390 NASA ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN LAUDS APOLLO 11 CREW AND JOHN GLENN WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made these remarks today during a ceremony in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, where leaders of Congress honored astronauts John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins with congressional gold medals: "As we embark upon the next great chapter of human space exploration, we s ...Continue Reading

Nov. 16, 2011 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-387 NASA INVITES 150 LUCKY TWITTER FOLLOWERS TO LAUNCH OF MARS ROVER WASHINGTON -- NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter account to a two-day launch Tweetup on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Tweetup is expected to culminate in ...Continue Reading