*NASA History Listserv Readers: * Please join us on Wednesday, April 28 @12pm EDT for our upcoming history speaker: *Stephen Walker, /Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space/* * * *Microsoft Teams link for the event: *Click here to join the meeting *Abstract:* Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour – ten times faster than a rifle bullet – Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has be ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 FIRE SEASON IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Whether sparked by lightning, intentional land-clearing, or human-caused accidents, wildfires are burning longer and more often in some northern latitudes as the world warms. * Fires in the Far East (Image from Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 23, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148219/f ...Continue Reading

April 26, 2021 RELEASE 21-043*NASA, NSF Join Forces to Bolster Student Diversity in Engineering* nasa-logo-web-rgb_scaled.jpg *//* NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on an initiative to open new avenues to engineering careers for communities underserved and underrepresented in STEM, through Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Engineers are essential to America’s goals to send humans back to the Moon and, eventually, on to Mars. Succes ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #21-19 2021 April 25 at 9:13 p.m. MDT (2021 April 26 0313 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 19-25 G1 (Minor) conditions were observed on 23 Apr due to coronal hole influence and again on 25 Apr due to CME effects. No other space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For April 26-May 2 No space weather storms are expected ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Apr 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 116 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Apr 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2816 S22W65 270 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2818 S16W01 205 0040 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2820 S22W06 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Apr 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 115 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Apr 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2816 S24W44 262 0030 Cro 13 07 Beta 2818 S16E12 206 0040 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2819 N24W27 ...Continue Reading

April 24, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-049*NASA to Air Live Coverage of SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts’ Return to Earth* crew1_collage.jpg Clockwise from bottom right are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming return activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and&n ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3138 Issue Time: 2021 Apr 24 0502 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 3137 Begin Time: 2021 Apr 17 1715 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 19294 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Apr 24 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 114 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Apr 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2816 S24W31 262 0050 Cro 12 08 Beta 2818 S17E25 206 0050 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3137 Issue Time: 2021 Apr 23 0459 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 3136 Begin Time: 2021 Apr 17 1715 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 15548 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Su ...Continue Reading