1 00:00:07,450 --> 00:00:10,690 This Week at NASA… 2 00:00:10,690 --> 00:00:16,139 The three crew members of Expedition 23 made a safe return to Earth after their Soyuz 3 00:00:16,139 --> 00:00:22,100 flight from the International Space Station. Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA astronaut T.J. 4 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:27,270 Creamer, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency were met 5 00:00:27,270 --> 00:00:31,520 on the steppe of Kazakhstan by Russian personnel who extracted them from 6 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,550 their capsule and helped begin their readjustment to gravity after almost six months 7 00:00:36,550 --> 00:00:42,250 in space. The trio of space travelers was later greeted 8 00:00:42,250 --> 00:00:46,490 in a traditional ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 9 00:00:46,490 --> 00:00:50,390 “You hear the standard phrase -- we have mixed emotions -- but they are. We’ve given 10 00:00:50,390 --> 00:00:56,230 so much time already to this ship, making it work and working well with the ground, 11 00:00:56,230 --> 00:00:58,920 and trying to be productive. We invested a lot 12 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:05,140 of ourselves in this hold process and it’s kind of hard to let go of that.” 13 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:09,530 “Well I’m happy to be here for this signing. The NASA Glenn Research Center is without 14 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:14,189 the question an amazing asset to our state and to our nation.” 15 00:01:14,189 --> 00:01:18,659 The Glenn Research Center hosted Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Ohio Senator 16 00:01:18,659 --> 00:01:23,340 Sherrod Brown and other VIPs at several gatherings to underscore the center’s 17 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:28,479 contributions to the state and nation. “This is an agreement that reflects our 18 00:01:28,479 --> 00:01:31,659 deep respect for the revolutionary work that is 19 00:01:31,659 --> 00:01:38,420 being done at NASA Glenn and the burgeoning growth of the aerospace industry in 20 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:41,770 Ohio.” Strickland and Glenn’s Acting Center Director 21 00:01:41,770 --> 00:01:47,060 Ray Lugo signed a memorandum of understanding that continues collaboration 22 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:51,590 on technology efforts. The President’s budget proposal for NASA 23 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:56,759 would boost federal investment in Northeast Ohio, and create new aerospace jobs 24 00:01:56,759 --> 00:02:02,219 in the region. The Administration’s plan calls for the Center to receive $2.15 25 00:02:02,219 --> 00:02:05,649 billion in funds over the next five years for 26 00:02:05,649 --> 00:02:12,690 space and aeronautic programs. As this year’s hurricane season gets underway, 27 00:02:12,690 --> 00:02:17,130 the Goddard Space Flight Center has unveiled, for the media, NASA’s new climate 28 00:02:17,130 --> 00:02:22,860 simulation center. An amalgam of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction 29 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:27,260 technologies, the climate simulation center, supports weather and climate 30 00:02:27,260 --> 00:02:32,470 prediction research at one of the world’s largest contingents of Earth scientists. 31 00:02:32,470 --> 00:02:36,129 "The exciting thing about these particular machines is that they are based on the halem 32 00:02:36,129 --> 00:02:41,410 processors by Intel. And those processors are twice as fast as the previous generation 33 00:02:41,410 --> 00:02:44,310 machines. So we can get something twice as fast and we 34 00:02:44,310 --> 00:02:49,549 can provide the scientists computing power to double their capability to support the 35 00:02:49,549 --> 00:02:53,510 really important stuff that’s being done with weather and climate research.” 36 00:02:53,510 --> 00:02:58,260 Scientists will use the climate simulation center’s cutting edge capabilities to research 37 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:03,189 everything from cloud and hurricane features, to projections of climate change for 38 00:03:03,189 --> 00:03:07,269 decades and centuries to come. 39 00:03:07,269 --> 00:03:11,909 Space is the focus of this year’s World Science Festival in New York. And what better 40 00:03:11,909 --> 00:03:17,550 way to symbolize this large-scale annual science event than this towering, full-scale 41 00:03:17,550 --> 00:03:23,310 model of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Set up in the city’s Battery Park, the 42 00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:27,349 model of the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope served not only as the 43 00:03:27,349 --> 00:03:32,459 backdrop for the annual event’s kickoff, but also as a feature for festival goers – and 44 00:03:32,459 --> 00:03:35,719 an estimated 85,000 daily commuters. 45 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:39,999 This third annual World Science Festival, what its organizers call “a tribute to 46 00:03:39,999 --> 00:03:45,189 imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness,” aims at making science more interesting 47 00:03:45,189 --> 00:03:50,249 and accessible to the public by “taking it out of the lab” and into the streets, 48 00:03:50,249 --> 00:03:56,079 theaters, and museums of New York. 49 00:03:56,079 --> 00:04:00,750 Four student teams representing high schools in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Utah, and 50 00:04:00,750 --> 00:04:05,790 North Carolina were at the Glenn Research Center to compete in NASA's Balloonsat 51 00:04:05,790 --> 00:04:11,069 High Altitude Flight Days. Each team launched a balloon carrying experiments to an 52 00:04:11,069 --> 00:04:17,750 altitude of about 100,000 feet. After recovering their experiments the teams presented 53 00:04:17,750 --> 00:04:23,310 their findings at the Balloonsat symposium. And when I saw it go up into space I was crossing 54 00:04:23,310 --> 00:04:29,150 my fingers that it wouldn’t crash into a tree or something.” 55 00:04:29,150 --> 00:04:34,560 Balloonsat is sponsored by Teaching from Space, a NASA Education Office at NASA's 56 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,420 Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Educational Programs Office at Glenn and the 57 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:44,990 Ohio Space Grant Consortium. Its objective is to attract and retain students in STEM 58 00:04:44,990 --> 00:04:50,420 disciplines critical to the agency's missions -- science, technology, engineering and 59 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:53,450 mathematics. 60 00:04:53,450 --> 00:04:58,530 Officials representing Palmdale, the Dryden Flight Research Center and the AERO 61 00:04:58,530 --> 00:05:04,340 Institute participated in a rededication ceremony to mark the reopening of Dryden’s 62 00:05:04,340 --> 00:05:09,230 Educator Resource and Visitor Center. Housed at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale 63 00:05:09,230 --> 00:05:13,790 Civic Center, the center provides teachers and parents with STEM educational 64 00:05:13,790 --> 00:05:17,200 materials. “There are so many things here that NASA 65 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,130 does that people don’t know about and so that’s part of the mission of the Aero Institute, 66 00:05:22,130 --> 00:05:26,350 and part of the mission of NASA is to really reach out to the public here in the 67 00:05:26,350 --> 00:05:29,320 community because this is our source of our workforce.” 68 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,720 The Aero Institute is, I think, best equipped to inspire young people and develop this 69 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,970 connection to lifetime learning.” Visitors touring the newly reopened center 70 00:05:39,970 --> 00:05:44,430 saw a demonstration of Dryden's Digital Learning Network studio.