Oct. 25, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-221 NASA RELEASES THIRD STATUS REPORT ON COMMERCIAL PARTNER PROGRESS WASHINGTON -- NASA's industry partners continue to meet their established milestones in developing commercial crew transportation capabilities that will ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station, reducing the amount of time America has to depend on Russia fo ...Continue Reading

Oct. 25, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-222 NASA PLANS MEDIA BRIEFINGS ON NPP LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a series of news briefings from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. EDT, to discuss the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) is scheduled for launch from Va ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- 7.2 EARTHQUAKE IN EASTERN TURKEY 7.2 Earthquake in Eastern Turkey * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76221&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Oct 23, 2011 (Posted on Oct 24, 2011 2:56 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NA ...Continue Reading

Oct. 25, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-219 NASA HOSTING HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION WORKSHOP WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a three-day Human Space Exploration Community Workshop in San Diego starting on Monday, Nov. 14. The agency will introduce the International Space Exploration Coordination Group's Global Exploration Roadmap during the event. The workshop will frame the Global Exploration ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 130 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA EXHIBIT TO LAUNCH VISITORS ON 3-D JOURNEY THROUGH THE COSMOS AT THE SANTA FE CHILDRENS MUSEUM 2. MEDIA INVITED TO ORION SPACECRAFT WATER LANDING TEST AT LANGLEY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:21:13 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA EXHIBIT TO LAUNCH VISITORS ON 3-D JOURNEY THROUGH THE COSMOS AT THE SANTA FE CHILDRENS MUSEUM Oct. 24, 2011 Linda Matt ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 25 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 298 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1324 N12W13 307 0140 Eai 15 31 Beta-Gamma 1325 N16E16 278 0150 Dso 07 11 Beta 1327 S20 ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2011 Dwayne Brown/Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/202-358-0321 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Lon Rains Northrop Grumman Corporation, Falls Church, Va. 703-280-4363 lon.rains@ngc.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-220 NASA'S NEXT-GENERATION SPACE OBSERVATORY COMES TO BALTIMORE WASHINGTON -- Journalists are invited to an up-close look at a full-size model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at the Maryland Science Center, located at 601 Light Street in Balti ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2011 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov/j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022/272-9859 (mobile) amy.johnson@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-218 MEDIA INVITED TO ORION SPACECRAFT WATER LANDING TEST AT LANGLEY HAMPTON, Va. -- Reporters are invited to attend a water impact test of an 18,000-pound Orion test ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO Severe flooding struck southern Mexico and Central America in the autumn of 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76216&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 23, 2011 (Posted on Oct 24, 2011 9:08 AM) -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Oct. 24, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-360 NASA TELESCOPES HELP SOLVE ANCIENT SUPERNOVA MYSTERY WASHINGTON -- A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field ...Continue Reading