Aug. 22, 2011 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-176 NASA AERONAUTICS IS FOCUS OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ROUNDTABLE WASHINGTON -- NASA officials will meet with aeronautics industry, academia, and government leaders Aug. 25 to kick off a series of roundtable discussions about future directions for aeronautics research and technology. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address the participants. The roundtable is spo ...Continue Reading

Aug. 22, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-175 NASA HOSTS NEWS CONFERENCE ON UPCOMING MISSION TO MOON WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT, on Thursday Aug. 25, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Scheduled to launch Sept. 8, GRAIL will help answer longstanding questions ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH Heavy rains caused floods in parts of India and Bangladesh in July 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51822&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 20, 2011 (Posted on Aug 21, 2011 4:31 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PUYEHUE-CORDó ...Continue Reading

Aug. 22, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-272 COMMUNICATIONS, NAVIGATION AND IN-SPACE PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES SELECTED FOR NASA FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion capabilities. The projects will develop and fly a space solar sail, deep space atomic clock, and space-based optical communications ...Continue Reading

Aug. 22, 2011 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-174 NASA TELEVISION TO AIR SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP ARRIVAL HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage as a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station at 9:38 a.m. CDT on Friday, Aug. 26. NASA TV coverage will begin at 9 a.m., in lieu of the day's "ISS Update& ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 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 234 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1271 N16W01 059 0240 Eao 12 15 Beta 1272 S21E03 054 0090 Dao 06 08 Beta 1274 N18E57 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 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 233 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1271 N16E10 061 0260 Dho 10 22 Beta 1272 S22E15 056 0050 Cao 07 05 Beta 1274 N19E70 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 20 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 232 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1271 N16E25 059 0240 Esi 11 12 Beta-Gamma 1272 S21E27 057 0030 Hax 02 02 Alpha 1273 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN PAKISTAN Monsoon floods struck Pakistan's southern Sindh Province in August 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51778&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 18, 2011 (Posted on Aug 18, 2011 3:07 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a servi ...Continue Reading

Aug. 19, 2011 Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov Michael Cabbage Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 mcabbage@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-172 MEDIA INVITED TO MAJOR PROPERTY TRANSFER AT STENNIS SPACE CENTER BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- Journalists are invited to a ceremony marking the official transfer of a 1.6-million-square-foot facility to NASA's Stennis Space Center, positioning the south Missi ...Continue Reading