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

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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and others
honored two giants of aerospace history at

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a ceremony Tuesday, celebrating the renaming
of Dryden Flight Research Center to Armstrong

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Flight Research Center, after the late Neil
Armstrong, the first person to set foot on

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the moon and a former research test pilot
at the center.

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At the same time, the name of Hugh Dryden,
who served as NASA's first deputy administrator,

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lives on as the namesake of the center's aeronautical
test range.

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The event featured the singing of the national
anthem by Neil Armstrong's granddaughter,

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Kali and a low-level flyover of an F/A-18.

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On Tuesday, International Space Station, Expedition
39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace

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Exploration Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Rick
Mastracchio and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail

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Tyurin strapped into a Soyuz spacecraft and
hours later, landed safely in Kazakhstan.

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New station commander Steve Swanson of NASA
and his Expedition 40 crew mates now are awaiting

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the arrival of NASA's Reid Wiseman and the
rest of Expedition 40.

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They are in Russia preparing for their launch
to the ISS later this month.

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During a recent underwater exercise at the
Neutral Buoyancy Lab, near Johnson Space Center,

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astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen tested
spacesuits, tools and techniques NASA is developing

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for a human mission to an asteroid in the
2020s.

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This is part of a series of evaluations to
help determine what tools will be needed for

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the mission -- which will help advance a number
of technologies NASA needs to send astronauts

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to Mars in the 2030s.

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A new study by NASA and the University of
California, Irvine, indicates a rapidly melting

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section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears
to be in an irreversible state of decline

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with nothing stop the entire glacial basin
from melting into the sea.

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These glaciers contain enough ice to raise
global sea level by 4 feet in the coming century,

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and are melting faster than most scientists
had expected.

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During a visit to Goddard Space Flight Center
on Monday, Administrator Bolden visited the

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Integration and Test Facility, where the four
spacecraft for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale

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mission are being tested.

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Following its targeted launch next year, MMS
will orbit Earth to explore the mystery of

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magnetic reconnection -- a fundamental process
that occurs throughout the universe during

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which magnetic fields connect and disconnect
to explosively release energy.

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Recent observations by NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope show Jupiter's trademark Great Red

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Spot -- a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger
than Earth -- has shrunk to its smallest size

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ever measured.

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The new Hubble data indicate the storm currently
is about 10-thousand-250 miles across -- compared

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to 14-thousand-500 miles when measured by
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft

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in 1979.

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Astronomers have followed its downsizing since
the 1930s, and think the Great Red Spot is

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being altered by the swirling motions of small
eddies feeding into it.

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Engineers at Langley Research Center conducted
a 10-foot vertical drop test with a section

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of a former Marine helicopter, outfitted with
a composite subfloor.

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The composite material absorbed enough energy
from the impact to reduce simulated injury

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to two crash test dummies onboard.

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The composite subfloor will be used in a full-scale
helicopter crash test later this year.

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Marshall Space Flight Center is one of ten
NASA centers that may eventually participate

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in a new initiative called, Technology Transfer
University -- or T-2-U.

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The program seeks feedback from MBA students
about how NASA technology could be "spun off"

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for use in commercial industry.

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NASA's Technology Transfer Program hopes the
initiative inspires students to form companies

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that grow the U.S. economy by developing new
or improved commercial products using licensed,

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patented NASA technologies.

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NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility was honored
by the Louisiana State Legislature during

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the recent NASA Louisiana Aerospace Day 2014
events in Baton Rouge.

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The facility's deputy director, Michael Kynard
and astronaut Jeanette Epps attended the festivities.

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Proclamations in the state's House and Senate
recognized Michoud's critical roles in the

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nation's space history, in America's space
exploration future, and in Lousiana's economy

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and cultural life.

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And that's what's up this week @NASA ...