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"Here's some of the stories trending This
Week at NASA!"

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NASA's Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal was
announced March 4.

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The 17-point-5 billion dollar budget supports
NASA's new strategic plan to drive advances

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in science, technology, aeronautics and space
exploration.

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"The president's funding plan for America's
space program reaffirms the path we are on,

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and will keep us moving forward -- pushing
farther in the solar system and leading the

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world in a new era of exploration."

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The budget enables NASA to continue fostering
growth of a vibrant American commercial space

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industry, stay on target to launch American
astronauts from U.S. soil by 2017, keep utilizing

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the International Space Station until at least
2024 and carry out even more ambitious missions

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beyond low-Earth orbit.

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"This budget keeps us on the same, steady
path we have been following -- a stepping

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stone approach to send humans to Mars in the
2030's.

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It's a path that has seen many recent successes,
from the launch of the Global Precipitation

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Measurement mission last week -- the first
of an unprecedented five Earth Science launches

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this year -- to returning space station resupply
missions to U.S. soil with private American

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companies... to the power-up of Orion and
the countdown toward its first flight test

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later this year... to the final mirrors for
the James Webb Space Telescope being delivered."

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Two days after the budget announcement, Administrator
Charlie Bolden was the guest speaker at a

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luncheon on Capitol Hill, sponsored by The
Space Transportation Association.

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Bolden discussed NASA's budget, programs and
prospects for 2014 and beyond.

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The Space Transportation Association supports
policies that advance robust, affordable space

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transportation for NASA, the Department of
Defense and the commercial market.

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The next crew of the International Space Station
is training in Star City, Russia for its upcoming

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launch to the orbiting lab.

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NASA's Steve Swanson along with Russian cosmonauts
Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev are

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scheduled for a March 26 launch, Kazakhstan
time, to begin a six-month mission on the

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ISS as Expedition 39/40.

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Meanwhile, NASA's Mike Hopkins returns to
Earth March 11 while Rick Mastracchio remains

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onboard as part of Expedition 39.

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Two of the three boosters that will power
the Delta IV rocket scheduled to launch the

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Orion spacecraft on its first flight test
this fall, arrived by barge at Port Canaveral,

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Florida.

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The core and the starboard boosters were transported
to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for processing

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-- the port booster, is expected to arrive
in April.

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Data from Exploration Flight Test-1 will assist
in Orion's design and reduce overall mission

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risks and costs for later Orion flights.

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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden delivered
the initial keynote speech at this year's

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Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium in Greenbelt,
Maryland.

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The event attracts science and engineering
leaders from around the world to discuss some

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of the most important issues affecting space
exploration.

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This year's theme -- "Science and Exploration:
Engineering the Future," celebrated past accomplishments

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while highlighting future space exploration
priorities.

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March 6 marked the five year anniversary of
the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

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The agency's first planet-hunting spacecraft
launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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on a planned three-and-a-half-year mission
seeking signs other Earth-like planets.

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Even though it completed its prime mission
in November 2012, Kepler's data still is being

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used -- to date, more than 36-hundred planet
candidates and 961 confirmed planets have

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been discovered.

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And that's what's up ... This Week at NASA.