Feb. 28, 2011 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-053 FIRST NASA ASTRONAUT TO "CHECK IN" FROM SPACE HOSTS DC TWEETUP WASHINGTON -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut Doug Wheelock at 3 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 16. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington. Wheelock posted images he took of Earth from the International Spa ...Continue Reading

Feb. 28, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-009 NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental management and services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. The White Sands Test Facility Environmen ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Dust blew through the Taklimakan Desert at the end of February 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49473&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 28, 2011 (Posted on Feb 28, 2011 12:34 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN PAKISTAN W ...Continue Reading

Feb. 28, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-039 MEDIA INVITED TO VIEW SPACE STATION CARGO FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will host a media event at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 10, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the cargo of the next space shuttle flight. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a sophisticated science ins ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 62 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-133 MCC Status Report #06 2. STS-133 MCC Status Report #07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:16:02 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #06 STS-133 Report #06 Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 - 7:00 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � With more than 2,000 pounds of supplies and hardware to deliver to the International Spac ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Feb 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 59 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Feb 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1163 N18E32 179 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1164 N27E46 165 0170 Eso 14 12 Beta-Gamma 1165 S21 ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 61 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-133 MCC Status Report #04 2. STS-133 MCC Status Report #05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:07:54 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Report #04 STS-133 Report #04 Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 - 6:30 a.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON � Space shuttle Discovery has been steadily catching up to the International Space Statio ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Feb 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 58 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Feb 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1163 N18E46 178 0110 Dai 06 09 Beta-Gamma 1164 N28E60 164 0200 Dao 10 07 Beta-Gamma 116 ...Continue Reading

There are 5 messages totalling 270 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. STS-133 MCC Status Report #01 2. ICY INSIGHTS INTO MARS, HAYABUSA RESULTS HIGHLIGHT CONFERENCE 3. NASA ANNOUNCES STS-133 WAKEUP SONG WINNERS; FACE IN SPACE TOTALS 4. NASA SETS MEDIA CREDENTIAL DEADLINES FOR NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT 5. STS-133 MCC Status Report #03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:36:06 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: STS-133 MCC Status Re ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Feb 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 57 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Feb 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1163 N17E60 177 0120 Dai 08 10 Beta-Gamma 1164 N28E76 162 0250 Hkx 04 01 Alpha IA. H-al ...Continue Reading