March 25, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-014 NASA MAKES SELECTION FOR INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Va., for the NASA Integrated Communications Services (NICS) contract. SAIC will provide managerial and technical expertise to suppor ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA Unusually heavy rains in March 2011 flooded parts of Angola and Namibia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49842&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 20, 2011 (Posted on Mar 24, 2011 3:16 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazard ...Continue Reading

March 25, 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-066 MASSACHUSETTS STUDENTS CALL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT WASHINGTON -- Students in Springfield, Mass., will make a special call to Expedition 27 Flight Engineer and western Massachusetts resident Cady Coleman aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 29. The event, ...Continue Reading

March 25, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.culler@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-067 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT MARCH 29-30 IN CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- Journalists are invited to attend NASA's first open source software development summit March 29-30 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on b ...Continue Reading

March 25, 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 RELEASE: 11-089 NASA STARDUST SPACECRAFT OFFICIALLY ENDS OPERATIONS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft sent its last transmission to Earth at 7:33 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 24, shortly after depleting fuel and ceasing operations. During an 11-year period, the venerable spacecraft collected and returned comet material to ...Continue Reading

March 25, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov Timothy Allen National Institute of Aerospace 757-325-6723 timothy.allen@nianet.org RELEASE: 11-085 NASA TV PROGRAM AVAILABLE ON HULU HAMPTON, Va. -- An award-winning NASA-produced television program, "NASA 360," is available at the online video service hulu.c ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 69 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA HELPS STUDENTS TRAIN LIKE ASTRONAUTS IN MISSION X CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:19:31 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA HELPS STUDENTS TRAIN LIKE ASTRONAUTS IN MISSION X CHALLENGE March 24, 2011 William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Mar 25 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 84 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Mar 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1176 S16E44 198 0380 Eki 15 25 Beta-Gamma 1177 N21E37 205 0010 Bxo 01 03 Beta 1178 S13E ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-088 NASA HELPS STUDENTS TRAIN LIKE ASTRONAUTS IN MISSION X CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- Fourth-grade students in the College Station Independent School District (CSISD) in Texas have completed six weeks of a NASA health and fitness challenge known as "Mission X: Train Like an Astrona ...Continue Reading

March 24, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-087 SUZAKU SHOWS CLEAREST PICTURE YET OF PERSEUS GALAXY CLUSTER WASHINGTON -- X-ray observations made by the Suzaku observatory provide the clearest picture to date of the size, mass and chemical content of a nearby clu ...Continue Reading