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“Here’s some of the stories trending This
Week at NASA!”

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NASA wrapped up its second Underway Recovery
Test Aug. 4 with the Orion spacecraft, off

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the coast of San Diego, California.

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The agency teamed with Lockheed Martin, the
U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense's

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Human Space Flight Support Detachment 3 to
evaluate primary and alternative methods to

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recover Orion after the spacecraft safely
splashes down in the ocean at the conclusion

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of future deep space missions.

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Orion’s first spaceflight test with a splashdown
in the Pacific Ocean is targeted for December.

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During an August 8 news briefing at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California,

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NASA released new video from last month’s
Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test in

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Hawaii and discussed early results of the
test.

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The successful cross-cutting demonstration
of the LDSD project’s saucer-shaped test

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vehicle was designed to evaluate technologies
for safely landing larger and heavier payloads

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on the surface of Mars and other planets with
atmospheres.

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Aug. 5 Pacific Time… was the 2-year anniversary
of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars

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– after surviving the dreaded “seven minutes
of terror” descent to the Martian surface.

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To help mark the occasion, a book release
of Mars Up Close at National Geographic in

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Washington, DC included a panel discussion
with author Marc Kaufman and several NASA

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representatives.

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Curiosity continues to explore Mars, but its
met its major objective of finding evidence

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of a past environment that could have supported
microbial life.

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On Aug. 4, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
visited the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington

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to view the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft,
or MMS, following the observatory’s final

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thermal vacuum test at the lab.

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Targeted to launch in 2015, MMS is a quartet
of spacecraft that will investigate a mysterious

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process known as magnetic reconnection, during
which magnetic fields around Earth connect

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and disconnect, explosively releasing energy.

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The mission also will provide the first three-dimensional
views of this fundamental process that occurs

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throughout our universe.

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During an Aug. 5 flight aboard an aircraft
equipped with NASA remote sensing technology

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previously developed for Mars exploration,
engineers from Glenn Research Center imaged

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western Lake Erie to learn more about the
algal bloom that contaminated water supplies

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in parts of Ohio and Michigan recently.

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NASA and NOAA satellite imagery currently
is used to identify, monitor and map potentially

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harmful algal blooms, but can be obscured
by weather.

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Airborne remote-sensing makes monitoring possible
during cloud cover and in parts of the world

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where satellite imagery is not available.

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The same day as the algal bloom flight, results
of more than thirty projects were presented

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by young Earth science professionals at the
annual DEVELOP Earth Science Applications

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Summer Showcase at NASA headquarters.

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The projects were designed to demonstrate
innovative and practical applications of NASA

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Earth observations to community concerns around
the globe -- addressing a wide range of environmental

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and public policy issues.

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The DEVELOP Program bridges the gap between
NASA Earth science and society, enabling participants

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and partner organizations to better handle
the challenges facing society today and in

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the future.

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Administrator Bolden was at Goddard Space
Flight Center recently, to announce, with

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Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet
and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, a member of the

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Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Committee…

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the 2013 Small Business Federal Procurement
Scorecard.

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NASA received an “A” – up from a “C”
three years earlier.

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NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs
helps develop small businesses in high tech

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areas, including technology transfer and commercialization
of technology.

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And that’s what’s up this week @NASA …