July 01, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-213 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STUDENTS WIN SPACE HABITAT COMPETITION HOUSTON -- University of Wisconsin students topped two other university teams to win the 2011 NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, a competition to design and build a ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 01 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 182 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1242 N16W30 056 0080 Dso 06 08 Beta 1243 N16E36 350 0030 Cro 04 06 Beta IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-137 NASA PLANS AIR POLLUTION FLIGHTS OVER MARYLAND ON JULY 1 WASHINGTON -- NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Friday, July 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT. The flight is part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space. NASA's P-3B research aircra ...Continue Reading

June 30, 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: 11-212 NASA'S SPITZER FINDS DISTANT GALAXIES GRAZED ON GAS WASHINGTON -- Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant universe continuously ingested the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER IRAQ Multiple dust plumes blew through Iraq and over the Persian Gulf at the end of June 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51247&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 30, 2011 (Posted on Jun 30, 2011 1:42 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Mary Blake Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Calif. mary.blake@ngc.com 310-812-6291 RELEASE: 11-210 NASA COMPLETES MIRROR POLISHING FOR JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE WASHINGTON -- Mirrors are a critical part of a telescope. The quality is crucial, so completion of mirror polishing represents a major milestone. All of the mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been polished so the obse ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1815 Issue Time: 2011 Jun 30 0947 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1814 Begin Time: 2011 Jun 23 1455 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3744 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscalesThank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 63 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA FLIGHT DIRECTORS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS FOR FINAL SHUTTLE MISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:35:30 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA FLIGHT DIRECTORS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS FOR FINAL SHUTTLE MISSION June 29, 2011 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M11-136 NASA FLIGHT D ...Continue Reading

June 29, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-029 NASA OPERATIONS, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE CONTRACT GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA awarded a follow-on contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation (LMSSC) for Mission Operations, Systems Engineering and Software (MOSES-II) ...Continue Reading

June 29, 2011 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Lori J. Rachul Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-8806 lori.j.rachul@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-030 NASA AWARDS SAFETY CENTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES CONTRACT CLEVELAND -- NASA has selected Alphaport Inc. of Cleveland to provide technical support services to the NASA Safety Center. The type of services to be provided include training course development and ...Continue Reading