April 09, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-044 *Maine Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station* NASA astronaut Jessica Meir performs in-flight maintenance on the Major Constituent Analyzer Mass Spectrometer the International Space Station. *//* Students from Maine will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station who have special ties to the Pine Tree State. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 1:20 p.m. EDT Monday, April 13, on NASA televisi ...Continue Reading

April 09, 2020 RELEASE 20-042 *NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Arrive Safely at Space Station* The Soyuz MS-16 lifts off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Thursday, April 9, 2020 sending Expedition 63 crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos into orbit for a six-hour flight to the International Space Station and the start of a six-and-a-half month mission. */Credits: NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin/* NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russia ...Continue Reading

April 09, 2020 RELEASE 20-040 *NASA Calls on Gamers, Citizen Scientists to Help Map World’s Corals* A user playing the new NeMO-Net game that helps NASA classify the world's coral from their own home */Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center/Ved Chirayath /* NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems. During the past several years, researchers at NASA’s Ame ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 09 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 100 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 ...Continue Reading

April 08, 2020 RELEASE 20-038 *NASA Awards Contract to Deliver Science, Tech to Moon Ahead of Human Missions* Masten’s XL-1 lunar lander will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022. */Credits: Masten Space Systems/* NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 08 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 99 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 N ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (7 April 2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features * Tournament Earth - And Then There Were Eight https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2020/04/07/and-then-there-were-eight/?src=eoa-blogs There have been two rounds of voting in Tournament Earth, and two rounds of upsets. What surprises await in round 3? -------------------- Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.na ...Continue Reading

April 07, 2020 RELEASE 20-041 *NASA Selects Early-Stage Technology Concepts for New, Continued Study* Future technologies that could enable quicker trips to Mars and robotic exploration of ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 million.  Illustration of how a sol ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 07 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 98 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 N ...Continue Reading

April 06, 2020 RELEASE 20-039 *NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, ‘A Successful Failure’* S70-35614 (17 April 1970) --- The crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission, step aboard the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the mission, following splashdown and recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. Exiting the helicopter which made the pick-up some four miles from the Iwo Jima are (from left) astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot; James A. Lovell Jr., commander; and John L. Swigert Jr. ...Continue Reading