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

May 26, 2011 Trent J. 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: 11-169 NASA'S SPITZER SEES CRYSTAL "RAIN" IN OUTER CLOUDS OF INFANT STAR WASHINGTON -- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This is the first time such crystals have bee ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 153 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS 2. STS-134 MCC Status Report #19 3. STS-134 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION AUDIO AND VIDEO AVAILABLE ONLINE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:57:48 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS May 25, 2011 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483- ...Continue Reading

May 25, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Ruth Marlaire Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 ruth.marlaire@nasa.gov Donalyn Dela Cruz Office of the Governor, Honolulu 808-586-0012 donalyn.delacruz@hawaii.gov RELEASE: 11-168 NASA AND HAWAII PARTNER FOR SPACE EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and Hawaii have agreed to collaborate on a wide range of activities to promote America's human and robotic exploration of space. The partnership als ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 May 26 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 146 Issued at 0030Z on 26 May 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1216 S15W52 194 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1222 N15W24 166 0010 Bxo 03 02 Beta IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading

May 25, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-163 NASA TO LAUNCH NEW SCIENCE MISSION TO ASTEROID IN 2016 WASHINGTON -- NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will be the first ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Ray Villard/Kailash Sahu Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514/410-338-4930 villard@stsci.edu/ksahu@stsci.edu RELEASE: 11-162 NASA'S HUBBLE FINDS RARE 'BLUE STRAGGLER' STARS IN MILKY WAY'S HUB WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON SONGDA Songda formed as a tropical depression on May 20, 2011. It strengthened into a tropical storm the same day, and became a typhoon four days later. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50724&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 25, 2011 (Posted on May 25, 2011 12:59 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQ ...Continue Reading

May 25, 2011 David S. Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-166 NASA COMMEMORATES MOONSHOT MOMENT'S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY AGENCY LOOKS TO THE FUTURE AND BEYOND LOW-EARTH ORBIT WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, a young president struggling with deepening international issues set a fledgling space agency on a course that would change the history of human exploration. NASA commemorates President John F. Kennedy's historic speech that sent humans safely to the moon with a s ...Continue Reading