The FINANCIAL -- The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists,according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- Journalists are invited to a roundtable discussion at 11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 24, with NASA's Chief Technologist Mason Peck during his visit to the agency's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va,according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of the next spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station,according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut Ron Garan at 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW in Washington, according to NASA.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for the third annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge on Monday, Jan. 23, according to NASA.