Sep. 22, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-320 NASA 2012 LUNABOTICS COMPETITION OPEN FOR REGISTRATION WASHINGTON -- NASA is accepting applications from teams of U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate students for the third annual Lunabotics Mining Competition. The event will be at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 21-26, 2012. Participants in the ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 60 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. PLANT EXPERIMENTS TAKE ROOT ON SPACE STATION TO INSPIRE STUDENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:20:56 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: PLANT EXPERIMENTS TAKE ROOT ON SPACE STATION TO INSPIRE STUDENTS Sep. 21, 2011 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Brad Thomas National Space Biomedica ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 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 265 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N22W47 056 0380 Ehc 11 26 Beta-Gamma 1296 N26W29 038 0020 Cro 03 04 Beta 1298 N ...Continue Reading

Sep. 21, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov Brad Thomas National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston 713-798-7595 rbthomas@bcm.edu RELEASE: 11-319 PLANT EXPERIMENTS TAKE ROOT ON SPACE STATION TO INSPIRE STUDENTS HOUSTON -- A unique science project designed to sow the excitement of scientific discovery in students is sprouting this week aboard the International Space ...Continue Reading

Sep. 21, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-316 NASA SELECTS TEACHERS FOR STUDENT'S REDUCED GRAVITY EXPERIMENTS WASHINGTON -- Teachers from 14 NASA Explorer Schools (NES) have been selected for the 2011 School Recognition Award for their contributions to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. A team of NASA personnel reviewed applications and recognized the schools for demonstrating exemplary classroom practic ...Continue Reading

Sept. 21, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Rebeca Hwang/Tim Cox The Cleantech Open, Redwood City, Calif. 650-380-4518/650-369-7784 rebeca@younoodle.com / media@cleantechopen.com RELEASE: 11-318 NASA AND THE CLEANTECH OPEN PARTNER IN ROBOTICS CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected The Cleantech Open of Redwood, Calif., to manage the agency's Night Rover Challenge that will culminate in a competition in fall 2012. The even ...Continue Reading

Sept. 21, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-197 UPDATE WITH ADDITIONAL SPEAKER: MEDIA OPPORTUNITY WITH NASA'S SOFIA DURING WASHINGTON STOPOVER WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting journalists to tour and learn more about the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 12 to 2 p.m. EDT at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a highly modified Boe ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 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 264 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N23W35 057 0310 Dhc 10 18 Beta-Gamma 1296 N27W16 038 0030 Cro 03 05 Beta 1298 N ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, Last week you should have received an e-mail invitation from the Claes Fornell International (CFI) Group on behalf of NASA to participate in a Web-based survey about the quality and utility of PO.DAAC products and services. We greatly appreciate you taking this 10 minute anonymous survey, as your feedback is used to help us to better serve our data user community. At the end of the survey there is an "Additional Comments" field. Please consider using this to provided feedback on servic ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 41 2011 September 20 at 02:52 p.m. MDT (2011 September 20 2052 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 12-18 A category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm occurred on 17 September due to the arrival of a coronal mass ejection from 13 September. Outlook For September 21-27 Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts are possible from 24 - 27 September ...Continue Reading