:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 29 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 149 Issued at 0030Z on 29 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2356 S15E61 199 0060 Hax 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 28 ...Continue Reading

  May 28, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-085*NASA to Hold Media Call to Discuss Surprising Observations of Pluto’s Moons* NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 3, to discuss the Hubble Space Telescope’s surprising observations of how Pluto’s moons behave, and how these new discoveries are being used in the planning for the New Horizons Pluto flyby in July. Participants in the teleconference will be: [*]John Grunsfeld, associate administrator ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 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 148 Issued at 0030Z on 28 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2353 N07W74 347 0030 Hrx 03 02 Alpha 2354 S19W74 345 0010 Axx 02 02 Alpha IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading

  May 27, 2015 RELEASE 15-105*Commercial Crew Milestones Met; Partners on Track for Missions in 2017* */Credits: NASA/* NASA has taken another step toward returning America’s ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017. The Commercial Crew Program ordered its first crew rotation mission from The Boeing Company. SpaceX, which successfully performed a pad abort test of its flight vehicle earlier this month, is expected to receive i ...Continue Reading

  May 27, 2015 RELEASE 15-106*NASA Begins Testing Mars Lander in Preparation for Next Mission to Red Planet* Testing is underway on NASA’s next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016. The lander is called InSight, an abbreviation for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. It is about the size of a car and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the interior structure of the Red Planet. E ...Continue Reading

  May 27, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-084*Astronaut Available to Discuss First, Next 50 Years of Spacewalking* On June 3, 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White exited the Gemini 4 space capsule using a hand-held oxygen jet gun to push himself from the hatch for a 23-minute tethered spacewalk that set the stage for future moonwalks, satellite retrievals and repairs, and space station assembly and maintenance.  NASA astronaut Mike Foreman is seen here during the fourth spacewalk of STS-123 on ...Continue Reading

Folks:             The /Aeronautics and Space Report of the President, Fiscal Year 2014 Activities/ is now available at http://history.nasa.gov/presrep2014.pdf online.  Previous editions of this legislatively mandated report are also available from http://history.nasa.gov/presrep.html online.  Thanks,             Steve   Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 5P25 NASA Headquarters Wa ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 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 147 Issued at 0030Z on 27 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2349 S19W76 002 0040 Cso 03 02 Beta 2353 N07W59 345 0030 Cso 03 02 Beta 2354 S19W56 ...Continue Reading

May 26, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius-CAP v3.0 data covering the month of April 2015.  CAP Level 2 and 3 products are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?search=CAP and are being distributed via PODAAC's general public ftp site, OPeNDAP, THREDDS and LAS.  Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of April, and will be augmented o ...Continue Reading

  May 26, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-081*NASA Brings Science of Space Down to Earth for 2015 World Science Festival *  Kids and adults alike got a kick out of the NASA mobile exhibit during the 2014 World Science Festival. */Credits: NASA/Tara Ruttley /* From mega space telescopes to space navigation, NASA is bringing a variety of interactive, hands-on activities and exhibits to the more than 100,000 visitors who will attend this year’s World Science Festival in New Yor ...Continue Reading