NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 222 Status Reports

05/26/2013 05:50 PM EDT

WW 0222 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0222 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET  

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SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 222

05/26/2013 05:50 PM EDT

WW 222 SEVERE TSTM MT WY 262150Z - 270400Z

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 

WATCH NUMBER 222  NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 

350 PM MDT SUN MAY 26 2013    THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 

PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA  NORTHEAST WYOMING 

Soyuz to the Launch Pad

Soyuz to the Launch Pad

05/26/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in Kazakhstan.

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, are set to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday night Eastern U.S. time, Wednesday in Kazakh time.

Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.  

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Tornado Watch 217

05/25/2013 03:55 PM EDT

WW 217 TORNADO MT ND SD WY 251955Z - 260400Z

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED  

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 217  

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  155 PM 

MDT SAT MAY 25 2013    

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A    

* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF   

SOUTHEAST MONTANA  

SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA  

WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA  

NORTHEAST WYOMING    

* EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING 

FROM 155 PM UNTIL  1000 PM MDT.    

European Space Agency YouTube Update

Earth from Space: Kazakh treasure

24-05-2013 07:32 PM CEST

Earth from Space: Kazakh treasure Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the sixty-sixth edition, we discover why the Kazakh region of Mangistau is sometimes called the 'treasure peninsula'. See also the following link to download the image: The treasure peninsula

A piece of space history

24-05-2013 07:29 PM CEST

A piece of space history Yuri Gagarin's MP3 player. Still working after more than 50 years!

Tsunami Information Bulletin

Tsunami Information Bulletin

05/24/2013 11:10 AM EDT

  000  WEPA42 PHEB 241510  TIBPAC 

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001 

PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS  ISSUED AT 1510Z 

24 MAY 2013 

 THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE 

PACIFIC  OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...

EXCEPT

• ALASKA

• BRITISH COLUMBIA

• WASHINGTON

• OREGON

• CALIFORNIA 

 ... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ... 

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. 

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. 

ONLY  NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE 

AUTHORITY TO MAKE  DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE

OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND  ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN 

RESPONSE. 

symposium

symposium

23-05-2013 04:10 PM CEST

ESA partners with CNES to host Ground-Based Space Facilities symposium in Paris from 12-14 June 2013.

The Engine Burns Blue

The Engine Burns Blue

05/24/2013 12:00 AM EDT

This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon ions for propulsion. An earlier version of this solar-electric propulsion engine has been flying on NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroid belt.

This engine is being considered as part of the Asteroid Initiative, a proposal to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.

This image was taken through a porthole in a vacuum chamber at JPL where the ion engine is being tested.  
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech