There is 1 message totalling 88 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:39 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS Sept. 6, 2011 Kylie Clem/Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JO11-018 NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 07 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 250 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1277 N18W93 299 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1281 S18W51 258 0010 Bxo 03 02 Beta 1283 N14W18 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #11- 3 2011 September 06 at 05:44 p.m. MDT (2011 September 06 2344 UTC) **** STRONG RADIO BLACKOUT EVENT **** NOAA Region 1283 produced and R3 (Strong) Radio Blackout event on September 6 at 2220 UTC (6:20 p.m. EDT). The event may include an earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection, but at this early point in the eruption it is too soon to be more specific. Additional informa ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: C11-038 NASA AWARDS FACILITY OPERATING SERVICES CONTRACT AWARD TERM PERIOD 2 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi has exercised award term period 2 of the Facility Operating Services Contract (FOSC) with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn. Th ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-290 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST BRAUN RETURNING TO GEORGIA TECH WASHINGTON -- Bobby Braun, who served as the first NASA chief technologist in a decade, will leave the agency in October to return to the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Braun's service at NASA was possible through a two-year intergovernmental personnel agreement with Georgia Tech. During h ...Continue Reading

Sep. 06, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-185 NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB AWARD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 9, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station operated as a U.S. national l ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE KATIA After forming near Cape Verde in late August 2011, Katia crossed the Atlantic and headed in the general direction of the U.S. East Coast in early September. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52035&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 05, 2011 (Posted on Sep 06, 2011 12:24 PM) * http:/ ...Continue Reading

Attached are three notices about two topics that may interest readers of this listserv:  about the editorship of the British Interplanetary Society’s /Spaceflight/ magazine, and a call for papers for an upcoming conference.  Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Mail Suite CO72, Room 5N11 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 202-358-0385 202-358-2866 fax _http://history.nasa.gov_ ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/301-614-5438 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov elizabeth.a.zubritsky@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-289 NASA SPACECRAFT IMAGES OFFER SHARPER VIEWS OF APOLLO LANDING SITES GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 la ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 39 2011 September 06 at 8:52 a.m. MDT (2011 September 06 1452 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For August 29-September 4 A category R1 (Minor) radio blackout occurred on 04 September due to flare activity from active sunspot Region 1286. Outlook For September 7-13 R1 (Minor) and R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts are expected through 12 September due to acti ...Continue Reading