May 19, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-157 COMMANDER MARK KELLY'S STATEMENT ABOUT FUTURE OF SPACE PROGRAM HOUSTON -- During media interviews today, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission aboard the International Space Station, made the following statement about the future of space exploration: "NASA is leading the way and will continue to do so," said Kelly. "We are t ...Continue Reading

May 19, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.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: 11-151 CASSINI SPACECRAFT AND GROUND TELESCOPE SEE VIOLENT SATURN STORM WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory groun ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- SPRING FLOODS IN THE U.S. MIDWEST AND CANADA Annual spring floods affected the Midwestern United States beginning in late February 2011. Flooding continued into April, and also affected parts of Canada. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50659&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from May 18, 2011 (Posted on May 19, ...Continue Reading

May 19, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-155 NASA'S GALAXY EVOLUTION EXPLORER FINDS DARK ENERGY REPULSIVE WASHINGTON -- A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. The su ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 75 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-134 MCC Status Report #05 2. STS-134 MCC Status Report #06 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:30:21 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #05 STS-134 Report #05 4:30 p.m. CDT Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � Endeavour docked with the International Space Station at 5:14 a.m. C ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 May 19 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 139 Issued at 0030Z on 19 May 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1208 N09W90 325 0030 Hsx 01 02 Alpha 1214 S24W42 277 0080 Cso 07 09 Beta 1216 S14E41 ...Continue Reading

May 18, 2011 Trent 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: 11-148 FREE-FLOATING PLANETS MAY BE MORE COMMON THAN STARS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone worlds probably were ejected from ...Continue Reading

We mourn the passing of Paul Dembling, one of the co-authors of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.  There is a Web feature about him at _http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/dembling_obit.html_ and we also have a capsule biography of him at _http://history.nasa.gov/biosa-d.html#D_ online.   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

There are 3 messages totalling 96 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-134 MCC Status Report #02 2. STS-134 MCC Status Report #03 3. STS-134 MCC Status Report #04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 03:11:34 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #02 STS-134 Report #02 12:30 a.m. CDT Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � Endeavour�s s ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 641 2011 May 17 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- The Progress M-10M cargo supply ship docked with the Station's Pirs module at 1428 UTC on Apr 29. Space Shuttle OV-105 Endeavour was launched on mission STS-134 on May 16. It flew to orbit using solid rocket motors RSRM-113 and External Tank ET-122. The RSRMs fell back to the Atlantic and were ...Continue Reading