[Tuesday, August 2, 2011] This document is for information and planning purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to verify reasonableness and feasibility of the requirement, as well as promote competition.

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[Tuesday, August 2, 2011] As part of CubeSat Launch Initiative, NASA will seek for CubeSat payloads that address an aspect of science, exploration, technology development, education, or operations encompassed by NASA's strategic goals and outcomes.

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[Wednesday, August 3, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Wednesday, August 3, 2011] Space shuttle Discovery is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member as the shuttle approaches the International Space Station during STS-133 rendezvous and docking operations.

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[Wednesday, August 3, 2011] Ar Rub al Khali Sand Sea, Arabian Peninsula is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 27 crew member on the International Space Station.

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[Thursday, August 4, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Thursday, August 4, 2011] NOAA Region 1261 produced the third of a sequence of CMEs and Solar Radio Blackout Events early today. The net effect of that activity is convergent CMEs expected to disturb the geomagnetic field in the early hours of August 5.

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[Thursday, August 4, 2011] Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev (out of frame), both Expedition 26 flight engineers, wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA).

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[Thursday, August 4, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Friday, August 5, 2011] A night time view of the Atlantic Seaboard Conurbation, United States of America, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 27 crew member on the International Space Station.

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[Friday, August 5, 2011] Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), attired in Russian Orlan spacesuits, conducted a spacewalk on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

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[Friday, August 5, 2011] Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other students in St. Paul, Minn., will make a special call to the International Space Station on Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 12:55 p.m. EDT.

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[Friday, August 5, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Saturday, August 6, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - Crew off-duty day.

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[Saturday, August 6, 2011] Soyuz and Progress spacecraft docked to the International Space Station are featured in this image photographed during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene.

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[Sunday, August 7, 2011] This close-up image, recorded during a July 12 spacewalk, shows the Materials on International Space Station Experiment - 8 (MISSE-8).

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[Monday, August 8, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday - Crew off-duty. Ahead: Week 21 of Increment 27/28.

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[Monday, August 8, 2011] The Massachusetts coastline is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station.

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[Monday, August 8, 2011] Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame), both Expedition 28 flight engineers, attired in Russian Orlan spacesuits, participate in a EVA on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

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[Monday, August 8, 2011] On August 2, 2011 NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft briefly flew in formation over the Edwards Air Force Base Test Range taking advantage of the opportunity that both planes were scheduled to be in the air on the same day.

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[Wednesday, August 10, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-4 Volkov checked out the SM (Service Module) PSS caution & warning panel.

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[Wednesday, August 10, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-1 Samokutyayev checked out the SM (Service Module) PSS caution & warning panel.

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[Wednesday, August 10, 2011] While flying above the Atlantic Ocean, one of the members of the joint Atlantis-International Space Station crews took this photo of the Delmarva Peninsula from the orbiting complex on July 16, 2011.

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[Wednesday, August 10, 2011] Inside the International Space Station's Node 2 or Harmony, the STS-135 crew presented the Expedition 28 crew this special U.S. flag and mounted it on the hatch leading to Atlantis.

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[Thursday, August 11, 2011] Space Shuttle Orbiters "Discovery" and "Endeavour" at Kennedy Space Center this morning adjacent to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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[Thursday, August 11, 2011] The Aras River and Turkey-Armenia-Iran border region are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station.

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[Thursday, August 11, 2011] Backlit by Earth's "day time" light, NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, gets one last visit to the Cupola onboard the International Space Station. on July 18, 2011.

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[Thursday, August 11, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-1 Samokutyayev checked out the SM (Service Module) PSS caution & warning panel.

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[Friday, August 12, 2011] NASA has announced the creation of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. The new organization will focus on International Space Station operations and human exploration beyond low Earth orbit.

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[Friday, August 12, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, CDR Borisenko checked out the SM (Service Module) PSS caution & warning panel.

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[Friday, August 12, 2011] The final space shuttle landing July 21 opened new prospects for eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to receive a piece of spaceflight history.

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - Crew off-duty day.

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 28 flight engineer, poses for a photo with the KEDR satellite in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 28 flight engineer, poses for a photo with the KEDR satellite in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] @Astro_Ron #Greece + #Turkey #FromSpace from the Black Sea to the Nile to Lybia A wonderful view of our @FragileOasis

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] @Astro_Ron Looks like it was a great day in the #BigApple #FromSpace Taken today (7/31/11) @ 3:44pm EST RU in this px?

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[Sunday, August 14, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday - Crew off-duty. Ahead: Week 22 of Increment 27/28.

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[Monday, August 15, 2011] NASA has agreed in principle to allow SpaceX to combine all of the tests and demonstration activities that we originally proposed as two separate missions (COTS Demo 2 and COTS Demo 3) into a single mission.

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[Tuesday, August 16, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 22 of Increment 28.

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[Tuesday, August 16, 2011] Ron Garan completed another session with the Scaling Body-Related Actions in the Absence of Gravity (Passages) experiment. Passages evaluates how astronauts interpret visual information in microgravity.

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[Tuesday, August 16, 2011] This image of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA

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[Tuesday, August 16, 2011] Our exploration future is focused on the goal of sending humans beyond Earth orbit. This is an incredible aim and the International Space Station has an important role to play in the achievement

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[Tuesday, August 16, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Wednesday, August 17, 2011] Four members of the joint STS-135/Expedition 28 crews are able to spend part of their last shared time onboard the International Space Station performing floating exercises that can't be done in Earth's gravity.

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[Wednesday, August 17, 2011] Island of Crete, Greece is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station.

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[Thursday, August 18, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection FE-1 Samokutyayev performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel.

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[Thursday, August 18, 2011] Half a century after humankind entered outer space, an ESA-developed camera produced live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel - showing the International Space Station like never before.

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[Thursday, August 18, 2011] @Astro_Ron We really do have a beautiful @FragileOasis Turks + Caicos Islands + Inagua + Cuba (under the clouds) #FromSpace

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[Friday, August 19, 2011] The meeting will be open to the public up to the seating capacity of the room. This meeting is also available telephonically. You must use a touch tone phone to participate in this meeting.

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[Friday, August 19, 2011] NASA's partnership with industry to develop transportation to the International Space Station reaches another milestone on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

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[Friday, August 19, 2011] We write today to request that the Administration immediately provide the Section 309 report to Congress, and that the Office of Management and Budget immediately release its hold and approve the program.

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[Friday, August 19, 2011] Proposal instructions, forms and supporting documents are available on an Announcement of Opportunity page. Deadline for submission of letters of intent is 9 September 2011 and for proposals 4 November 2011.

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[Friday, August 19, 2011] As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-1 Samokutyayev performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel.

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[Sunday, August 21, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday C Crew off-duty day.

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[Monday, August 22, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #FromSpace do you think the NY Finger Lakes look like eye lashes on a giant eye? #Ontario #Toronto #Oneida St Larry River

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[Monday, August 22, 2011] @Astro_Ron: A closer look today #FromSpace Want 2 help? http://ow.ly/5LLoi Nominate projects making a difference on the Horn of Africa

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[Monday, August 22, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday C Crew off-duty day. Ahead: Week 23 of Increment 28.

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[Monday, August 22, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #FromSpace on 7/9/11 snow capped Pico de Cristobol Colon rises out of the haze near Colombia's Caribbean coast

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[Monday, August 22, 2011] NASA Television will provide live coverage as a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station at 9:38 a.m. CDT on Friday, Aug. 26.

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[Tuesday, August 23, 2011] AIA supports the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 (Sec. 204), which mandates an Independent Study on Human Exploration of Space conducted by the National Academies to recommend a path forward for the decade 2014 - 2023.

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[Tuesday, August 23, 2011] @Astro_Ron: The beautiful waters of The Bahamas #FromSpace Taken May 13th @ 10:53pm GMT

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[Tuesday, August 23, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #FromSpace A lake in the Tibetan Plateau

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[Wednesday, August 24, 2011] Mission Control Moscow reported that communication with the Progress 44 cargo craft was lost 5 minutes, 20 seconds after its launch at 9 a.m. EDT today.

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[Wednesday, August 24, 2011] This panoramic view of recently-formed Hurricane Irene was acquired by the crew of the International Space Station early Monday afternoon from a point over the coastal waters of Venezuela.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin today released a report that examined NASA's process for choosing permanent display locations for the retired Space Shuttle Orbiters and whether NASA complied with federal law.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 23 of Increment 28.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] Progress M-11M/43P undocked nominally this morning at 5:34am EDT after hooks opened at 5:35am.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] Progress M-12M/44P launched nominally this morning at 9:00am EDT at Baikonur/ Kazakhstan on a three-stage Soyuz-U. At about 325 sec into the flight, i.e., just after third-stage ignition, propulsion shut down, and the stage coasted.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] Students gathered at the Museum of Flight in Seattle will make a long distance call to astronauts aboard the International Space Station at approximately 1:35 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 29.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] NASA's work to help develop the next generation of commercial space transportation systems reached another significant achievement yesterday with the arrival at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia of the Cygnus Pressurized Cargo Module.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] This afternoon, starting at approximately 3:45 pm ED,T the International Space Station flew over Hurricane Irene. The flyover lasted approximately 6 minutes.

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[Thursday, August 25, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #Tripoli #Libya taken by NASA astronaut Ron Garan #FromSpace 8/24/11 on an historic day of transition. Taken @ 3:39pm GMT from the International Space Station

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] @Astro_Ron: The thin blue line of Earth's atmosphere and a low sun painting the clouds red as the half moon sets over Afghanistan on August 22, 2011 - one of sixteen moonsets we see each day from the International Space Station.

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] @Astro_Ron: Ominous view #FromSpace of Hurricane #Irene east of the Bahamas @ 3:14pm EST today. Eastern United States coast calm b4 storm 8/25/11

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] @Astro_Ron: 1 of our 16 sunsets #FromSpace yesterday That beautiful view never gets old #NASA #ISS

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on Kibo, in coordination with the gamma-ray burst satellite Swift (USA), observed the instant that a massive black hole swallowed a star for the first time in the world.

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] Dr. June Scobee Rodgers announced today a new informative and interactive website to support her ongoing advocacy efforts in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education junescobeerodgers.com.

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] NASA Television will broadcast an International Space Station status update briefing at 9 a.m. CDT on Monday, Aug. 29.

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[Friday, August 26, 2011] ESA: Our brave marsonauts may face the most monotonous phase of their mission, but they're not bored because they are not boring! Have a look at their inventive cookery to celebrate their one full year in the isolation!

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[Saturday, August 27, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

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[Saturday, August 27, 2011] The HDU (Habitat Development Unit) at NASA Desert RATS base camp in August 2011 ready for operations. On top of the HDU is the X-Hab Challenge Inflatable Loft.

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[Saturday, August 27, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday - Crew off-duty day.

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[Monday, August 29, 2011] Recently, you received a letter from several senators urging the Administration to move forward with the Space Launch System and approve the program. We agree that it is time for the Administration to commit to the plan for the new heavy lift rocket.

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[Monday, August 29, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday - Crew off-duty day. Ahead: Week 24 of Increment 28

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[Monday, August 29, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #FromSpace on 7/9/11 snow capped Pico de Cristobol Colon rises out of the haze near Colombia's Caribbean coast

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[Monday, August 29, 2011] @Astro_Ron: #FromSpace Sicily's Mt. Etna was smoking today (4:25 pm GMT 6/23/11

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[Monday, August 29, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 24 of Increment 28.

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[Tuesday, August 30, 2011] The metropolis of Izmir is located in the western Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the country's third largest city in terms of population and the second largest port city (after Istanbul).

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[Tuesday, August 30, 2011] All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-1 Samokutyayev performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel.

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[Tuesday, August 30, 2011] Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan today to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration.

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[Wednesday, August 31, 2011] The six astronauts on the International Space Station are safe and continuing their normal work after the loss of their space-bound cargo craft on 24 August.

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[Wednesday, August 31, 2011] Dr. Jacob Bleacher is a Planetary Geologist working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The 2011 field test is Jake's third time as a Desert RATS crewmember.

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[Wednesday, August 31, 2011] As part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection, FE-1 Samokutyayev performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel.

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[Wednesday, August 31, 2011] NASA Television will broadcast a news conference with the two agency astronauts aboard the International Space Station at 8:05 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

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