Sept. 24, 2011 Beth Dickey/Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/0918 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov/stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-350 NASA'S UARS RE-ENTERS EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE WASHINGTON - NASA's decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years and nine days after its launch on a 14-year mission that produced some of the first long-term records of chemicals in the atmosphere. The precise re-entry tim ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 43 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SOUTH TEXAS STUDENTS TO CALL SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:39:05 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SOUTH TEXAS STUDENTS TO CALL SPACE STATION Sept. 23, 2011 Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JE11-052 SOUTH TEXAS STUDENTS TO CALL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- Students in Edinburgh, Texas, will make a special call to the ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 24 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 267 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N24W74 057 0550 Ekc 11 14 Beta-Gamma 1296 N26W56 038 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1299 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 23, 2010 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov / j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Daniel Kanigan Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 daniel.n.kanigan@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-204 NASA TO BRIEF INDUSTRY ON SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM PROCUREMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, agency procurement officials, and Space Launch System Program managers will meet with contr ...Continue Reading

Sept. 23, 2011 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-324 NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE CREW MEMBERS HOST TWEETUP IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with Sandy Magnus and Chris Ferguson at 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 13. The event will be in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, M ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OFF WESTERN AFRICA Dust plumes blew off the west coast of Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean in late September 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52268&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 23, 2011 (Posted on Sep 23, 2011 1:13 PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 82 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO VISIT ORION MOCKUP IN HOUSTON 2. NASA COMPLETES ORION SPACECRAFT PARACHUTE TESTING IN ARIZONA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:35:44 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO VISIT ORION MOCKUP IN HOUSTON Sept. 22, 2011 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 23 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 266 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N22W62 058 0350 Ekc 13 19 Beta-Gamma 1296 N26W44 039 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1299 ...Continue Reading

Sep. 22, 2011 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov/j.d.harrington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-203 NASA POSTS SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM ACQUISITION OVERVIEW WASHINGTON -- NASA has released the acquisition overview for the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS is an entirely new advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home and provide the cornersto ...Continue Reading

Sep. 22, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.d.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-317 AQUARIUS YIELDS NASA'S FIRST GLOBAL MAP OF OCEAN SALINITY WASHINGTON -- NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satelite de Aplicacio ...Continue Reading