This Week @NASA

The biggest storm on the sun in years erupted on January 22 with a huge solar flare, an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons.
The warming of the Earth's surface continues. That, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, who say the average global surface temperature in 20-11 was the ninth warmest since 1880.
Former astronaut Scott Altman addressed Mississippi State legislators during NASA Day at the Capitol in Jackson.
Operated and maintained by the Ames Research Center, the SPHERES National Laboratory Facility onboard the ISS is exploring whether mini-satellites can affordably test spacecraft navigation in a microgravity environment.
About 350 students celebrated the 19th annual Young Astronaut Day at the Glenn Research Center.
An engaging new NASA program brings the excitement of space exploration to children while teaching them to live a healthy lifestyle.
Actress and spaceflight activist Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek TV series, found many friendly fans during a recent warp-speed visit to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's facilities in Southern California.
Forty-one years ago, on January 31, 1971, the Apollo 14 mission began with its launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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