1 00:00:00,659 --> 00:00:04,950 "Here's some of the stories trending This Week at NASA!" 2 00:00:04,950 --> 00:00:09,950 NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Goddard Center 3 00:00:09,950 --> 00:00:15,410 Director Chris Scolese congratulated the Goddard team recently for progress in development 4 00:00:15,410 --> 00:00:17,810 of the James Webb Space Telescope. 5 00:00:17,810 --> 00:00:22,689 The telescope's flight instruments and primary mirrors are being integrated at Goddard. 6 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:28,230 JWST is the agency's flagship science project and the most powerful space telescope ever 7 00:00:28,230 --> 00:00:29,230 built. 8 00:00:29,230 --> 00:00:34,460 Scheduled to launch in 2018, it will study every phase in the history of our universe, 9 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:39,489 including the first luminous glows after the big bang and the evolution of our own solar 10 00:00:39,489 --> 00:00:41,950 system. 11 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:46,379 Engineers recently took one of NASA's two Crawler Transporters for a test spin around 12 00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:48,500 the block at Kennedy Space Center. 13 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:53,420 It was an opportunity to test modifications to the Crawlers to prepare them to carry the 14 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:58,059 Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad -- with both being upgraded with the ability 15 00:00:58,059 --> 00:01:02,829 to carry 14.2 million pounds of heavy-lift hardware. 16 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:08,640 A celebration at Marshall Space Flight Center for completion of the adapter that will connect 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:14,670 the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket on Orion's first flight test to space, in 18 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:15,670 September. 19 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:19,830 In mid-March, the adapter will be shipped to the United Launch Alliance facility in 20 00:01:19,830 --> 00:01:24,540 Decatur, Alabama, where the Delta IV is being constructed -- and eventually on to Florida's 21 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:27,600 Cape Canaveral ahead of Orion's mission. 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,460 During that first mission, called Exploration Flight Test-1, the un-inhabited Orion will 23 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:38,170 travel about 36-hundred miles above Earth and re-enter the atmosphere at about 20-thousand 24 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:39,720 miles per hour. 25 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,530 Data from the flight will help engineers prepare Orion for its first Space Launch System mission 26 00:01:44,530 --> 00:01:47,220 in 2017. 27 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:55,390 A team of engineers conducted a hot-fire test of an AJ26 engine on the E-1 test stand at 28 00:01:55,390 --> 00:01:57,350 Stennis Space Center. 29 00:01:57,350 --> 00:02:02,200 After post-test inspections and flight prep activities, the engine will ship to Wallops 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,250 Flight Facility. 31 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:09,009 The AJ26 powers the first stage of Orbital's Sciences' Antares rocket -- which launches 32 00:02:09,009 --> 00:02:14,150 the company's Cygnus spacecraft from Wallops, on supply missions to the ISS. 33 00:02:14,150 --> 00:02:20,280 NASA, Orbital, Aerojet Rocketdyne and Lockheed Martin conducts testing of the first-stage 34 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,280 engines. 35 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,810 An ISS Progress 54 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 36 00:02:27,810 --> 00:02:34,140 5 -- and six hours later docked to the International Space Station with almost three tons of food, 37 00:02:34,140 --> 00:02:38,170 supplies and experiments for the station's Expedition 38 crew. 38 00:02:38,170 --> 00:02:43,580 Arrival of the new Progress followed the undocking from the ISS of the old Progress 52 cargo 39 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:46,530 ship, just two days earlier. 40 00:02:46,530 --> 00:02:51,390 If you've got an idea for a new challenge for NASA's Centennial Challenges program you 41 00:02:51,390 --> 00:02:54,280 can submit it through March 2014. 42 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,250 If your idea is selected you'll get the chance to help run the challenge. 43 00:02:59,250 --> 00:03:03,740 Centennial Challenges gives entrepreneurs an opportunity to demonstrate new technology 44 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:07,530 solutions that can benefit NASA and the nation. 45 00:03:07,530 --> 00:03:10,720 For more info go to www.nasa.gov/challenges. 46 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,840 And that's what's up ... This Week at NASA.