1 00:00:06,759 --> 00:00:10,120 This Week at NASA... 2 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:16,660 A big week for NASA's newest astronaut candidates ... chosen from more 6-thousand applicants, 3 00:00:16,660 --> 00:00:20,449 the group of eight arrived at Johnson Space Center to begin training for future missions 4 00:00:20,449 --> 00:00:24,430 and were introduced to the media during a news conference with Administrator Charlie 5 00:00:24,430 --> 00:00:25,430 Bolden. 6 00:00:25,430 --> 00:00:31,029 "These new astronauts we're introducing today are critical to achieving our ambitious goals. 7 00:00:31,029 --> 00:00:34,550 They will help us to continue to lead the world in exploration." 8 00:00:34,550 --> 00:00:38,210 The candidates could be some of the first explorers to help NASA and its international 9 00:00:38,210 --> 00:00:43,011 partners blaze the trail outlined in the recently announced Global Exploration Roadmap. 10 00:00:43,011 --> 00:00:44,199 The roadmap makes clear the U.S. and its international space partners share an interest in pursuing 11 00:00:44,199 --> 00:00:45,199 ambitious exploration goals. 12 00:00:45,199 --> 00:00:49,039 "The roadmap demonstrates the important role of NASA's asteroid mission and advancing the 13 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:54,679 capabilities needed for exploring Mars and the economic and societal value of exploration 14 00:00:54,679 --> 00:01:03,699 and what it brings to all of us.' 15 00:01:03,699 --> 00:01:07,620 The roadmap also highlights the critical role of the International Space Station in preparing 16 00:01:07,620 --> 00:01:12,650 for deep-space exploration, and the importance of asteroid missions in advancing capabilities 17 00:01:12,650 --> 00:01:17,940 needed to explore Mars. 18 00:01:17,940 --> 00:01:22,210 While in Houston, Administrator Bolden also visited Boeing's Houston Product Support Center 19 00:01:22,210 --> 00:01:25,230 to check out a fully-outfitted mockup of the company's CST-100 capsule. 20 00:01:25,230 --> 00:01:30,960 The vehicle is being developed in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program to provide 21 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:38,980 safe, reliable and cost-effective transport to and from the International Space Station. 22 00:01:38,980 --> 00:01:43,120 Back outside the International Space Station for the second time in six days, Expedition 23 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:48,000 36 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin, in Russian Orlan spacesuits, 24 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,280 conducted another second spacewalk. 25 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:55,300 The pair's "to do" list included installing a platform on the Zvezda module for a telescope 26 00:01:55,300 --> 00:02:02,550 coming in the future and removing a visual alignment target on the Pirs Docking Compartment. 27 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:06,430 During a news briefing at NASA Headquarters, participants previewed the Lunar Atmosphere 28 00:02:06,430 --> 00:02:11,480 and Dust Environment Explorer or LADEE mission -- the agency's next excursion to the moon 29 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,300 and the first lunar mission launching from Wallops Flight Facility. 30 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:20,590 "One of the questions about dust on the moon is an engineering question -- how do you design 31 00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:24,190 things so that they can survive the dust environment." 32 00:02:24,190 --> 00:02:28,150 Understanding the environment around the moon will help scientists better understand other 33 00:02:28,150 --> 00:02:30,530 planetary bodies in the universe. 34 00:02:30,530 --> 00:02:35,720 LADEE is scheduled to launch Sept. 6. 35 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,200 The Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure of the James Webb Space Telescope was delivered 36 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:45,120 to Marshall Space Flight Center for testing in the X-ray and Cryogenic Test Facility. 37 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:51,540 The backplane holds JWST's huge hexagonal shaped mirror segment and other elements. 38 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:55,920 To prepare the Webb for the extreme temperatures of space, its components are tested at the 39 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:04,980 X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at temperatures down to a frigid minus 414 degrees Fahrenheit. 40 00:03:04,980 --> 00:03:08,569 Members of the media stopped by Houston's Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center 41 00:03:08,569 --> 00:03:13,430 for behind-the-scenes tours and access to the SEAC4RS mission, NASA's airborne study 42 00:03:13,430 --> 00:03:18,700 on how storm systems and air pollution from wildfires and other sources affect our climate. 43 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:23,519 SEAC4RS is the agency's most complex airborne science study of the year -- with more than 44 00:03:23,519 --> 00:03:32,159 200 support personnel and observations from NASA satellites, aircraft and ground sites. 45 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:36,109 The media got a "two-fer" in Houston that day because during another event at Ellington 46 00:03:36,109 --> 00:03:42,451 Field, plans were announced to relocate NASA 9-0-5, the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, to 47 00:03:42,451 --> 00:03:47,109 the Space Center Houston visitor center for permanent public display. 48 00:03:47,109 --> 00:03:51,480 The SCA safely transported space shuttles around the country on 68 ferry flights from 49 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:57,120 1974 to September 2012. 50 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:02,730 On August 25, 2012, astronaut Neil Armstrong -- passed away after complications from heart 51 00:04:02,730 --> 00:04:03,879 surgery. 52 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:09,019 The Apollo 11 commander was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface during the 53 00:04:09,019 --> 00:04:11,769 1969 mission to the moon. 54 00:04:11,769 --> 00:04:16,600 NASA and Washington's National Cathedral held a memorial service in September of last year, 55 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,250 during which Armstrong was remembered by those in attendance as an American hero, selfless 56 00:04:21,250 --> 00:04:23,850 educator and a humanitarian. 57 00:04:23,850 --> 00:04:26,920 Neil Armstrong was 82. 58 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,450 And that's This Week @NASA.