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March 17, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-061 NASA TV TO COVER MESSENGER SPACECRAFT ENTERING MERCURY'S ORBIT WASHINGTON -- NASA Television and the agency's website will carry live coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physi ...Continue Reading
March 18th 2011 PDT
March 17, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Sandra L. Nagy Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-9079 sandra.l.nagy@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-058 NASA GLENN "DROPS" STUDENT MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS CLEVELAND -- NASA has selected four high school teams of students to test their science experiments in a competition that simulates the microgravity in space. The experiments will be dropped next week into a ...Continue Reading
March 18th 2011 PDT
March 17, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-059 ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS HOUSTON -- After a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly will be available for live satellite interviews on Tuesday, March 22, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kelly will be available from 6 to 8 a.m. ...Continue Reading
March 18th 2011 PDT
March 17, 2011 J. D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Jennifer Stanfield Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.stanfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-057 NASA "CAN CRUSH" TEST WILL AID FUTURE ROCKET DESIGN WASHINGTON -- NASA will conduct an innovative engineering test on March 23 to help improve future heavy-lift launch vehicles design. The 10:30 a.m. EDT test, ...Continue Reading
March 17th 2011 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Mar 17 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 76 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Mar 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1169 N17W75 062 0260 Dhi 09 09 Beta-Gamma 1172 N11E02 345 0000 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1173 S28 ...Continue Reading
March 17th 2011 PDT
Jonathan's Space Report No. 639 2011 Mar 16 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes to my colleagues and readers in Japan. I understand that ISAS/Sagamihara is largely undamaged, but the ISS control center at JAXA/Tsukuba is out of action for the time being, thankfully with no casualties. I have not yet heard reports from the Kakuda hypersonic propulsion research center at Miyagi, near the epicenter. I expe ...Continue Reading
March 17th 2011 PDT
March 16, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-079 NASA CELEBRATES TRAILBLAZERS DURING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH EVENT WASHINGTON -- NASA's women took the spotlight Wednesday in a Women's History Month event showcasing their achievements in aeronautics and space exploration initiatives. The event gave students a chance to interact with an astronaut and other women working in science and technology careers. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver ...Continue Reading
March 17th 2011 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI NEAR SENDAI, JAPAN On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan, triggering a large tsunami across the Pacific Ocean and inundating Japan's coast. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49672&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Mar 14, 2011 (Posted on Mar 1 ...Continue Reading
March 17th 2011 PDT
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the "Preview" release of "QuikSCAT Level 3 Near-Coast Wind and Stress Fields with Enhanced Coverage for the US West Coast" produced by Dr. Barry Vanhoff, Mr. Craig Risien, and Dr. Ted Strub at the Oregon State University (OSU). This is part of a larger effort by Vanhoff et al. in developing "Enhanced Coastal Coverage" datasets to substantially improve coastal scatterometer coverage of wind and stress in coastal regions that are of significant importance ...Continue Reading
March 16th 2011 PDT
March 16, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-077 EXPEDITION 26 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN WASHINGTON -- Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Wednesday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Kaleri, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the spacecraft as it undocked at 12:27 a.m. E ...Continue Reading
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