July 14, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022 amy.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-227 NASA INTERNSHIP EXPOSES TEACHERS TO AEROSPACE ENGINEERING HAMPTON, Va. -- An innovative summer internship program will give 42 U.S. middle and high school teachers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with NASA's latest aerospace engineering technologies while working closely with agency technical m ...Continue Reading

July 14, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-229 FINAL SHUTTLE CREW ANSWERS STUDENT QUESTIONS FROM SPACE WASHINGTON -- Space shuttle astronauts aboard the International Space Station will answer videotaped questions from middle school students participating in NASA's Summer of Innovation initiative. The event is scheduled to air live on NASA Television at 7:09 a. ...Continue Reading

July 14, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850/4-1357 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov/priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-228 NASA SPACECRAFT TO ENTER LARGE ASTEROID'S ORBIT ON JULY 15 PASADENA, Calif. -- On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main as ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1820 Issue Time: 2011 Jul 14 1137 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1819 Begin Time: 2011 Jul 12 1605 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3831 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 are 3 messages totalling 94 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-135 MCC Status Report #10 2. STS-135 MCC Status Report #11 3. STS-135 MCC Status Report #12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:38:18 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #10 STS-135 Report #10 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 1:30 a.m. CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � The space shuttle Atlantis crew received a special ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 14 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 195 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1245 N15W23 237 0010 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1247 S18W54 267 0010 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1249 S16W3 ...Continue Reading

July 13, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-225 NASA SELECTS NONPROFIT TO MANAGE SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB RESEARCH WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc. (CASIS) to develop and manage the U.S. portion of the International Space Station that will be operated as a national laboratory. At the conclusion of successful negotiations, the independent, nonprofit research managemen ...Continue Reading

July 13, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-223 NASA RELEASES BOOK ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA's History Program Office is releasing a new book that examines the different psychological factors that affect astronauts during space travel, especially long-duration missions. The book, "Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective," ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUMMER MONSOON TRANSFORMS NORTHEASTERN BANGLADESH In a pattern repeated each year, monsoon rains inundated parts of northeastern Bangladesh in early July 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51331&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 10, 2011 (Posted on Jul 12, 2011 3:34 PM) ------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

July 13, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Bethany Allen Threadless, Chicago 312-415-0161 bethanys@threadless.com RELEASE: 11-226 NASA SUPPORTS COMPETITION TO CREATE OUT OF THIS WORLD T-SHIRT DESIGN WASHINGTON - NASA, through the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt commemorating the final space shuttle mission and the program's contributions to exploration. The c ...Continue Reading