:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 May 28 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 148 Issued at 0030Z on 28 May 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1216 S16W78 194 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1223 S16W00 115 0050 Dso 06 06 Beta 1224 N21W15 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER THE RED SEA Dust blew across the Red Sea, from Africa toward the Arabian Peninsula, on May 26, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50732&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 26, 2011 (Posted on May 26, 2011 4:00 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=5 ...Continue Reading

May 27, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-106 NASA'S STS-135 CREW AVAILABLE TO MEDIA AT FINAL SHUTTLE ROLLOUT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The four astronauts for the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, will answer reporters' questions at 8:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 31, as shuttle Atlantis is moved to its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The q ...Continue Reading

May 27, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-105 NASA ASTRONAUT CADY COLEMAN AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS ON EVE OF SHUTTLE LANDING HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, back on Earth after working last week in orbit with the space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6 - 8 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 31. ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 65 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-134 MCC Status Report #21 2. STS-134 MCC Status Report #22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:11:38 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #21 STS-134 Report #21 11 a.m. CDT Thursday, May 26, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � Endeavour crew members spent much of their day on late inspection of the shuttle�s thermal p ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 May 27 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 147 Issued at 0030Z on 27 May 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1216 S15W64 193 0070 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1222 N16W37 166 0010 Axx 02 03 Alpha 1223 S15E1 ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-024 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR ICESAT-2 LASER SYSTEMS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Fibertek of Herndon, Va., to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission scheduled to launch in 2016. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the ICESat-2 Project. The tot ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Cathy Weselby Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-2791/650-604-4789 cathy.weselby@nasa.gov Maria Martinez Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio 210-522-3305 maria.martinez@swri.org Richard Lewis Brown University, Providence, R.I. 401-863-3766 richard_lewis@brown.edu RELEASE: 11-171 NASA-FUNDED SCIENTISTS MAKE LUNAR WATERSHED DISCOVERY MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- A team of NASA-funded research ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-170 NASA CALLS FOR COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL FLIGHT SERVICES PROPOSALS WASHINGTON -- NASA is seeking proposals for services from commercial suborbital flight providers and payload integrators to support the agency's Flight Opportunities Program, which is part of NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist. NA ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-104 MEDIA EVENTS SET FOR AQUARIUS/SAC-D SATELLITE LAUNCH NEXT MONTH WASHINGTON -- The launch of the Aquarius/SAC-D observatory is scheduled for June 9, from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is targ ...Continue Reading