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

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NASA and its International Space Station partners
announced the crews of three upcoming missions

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to the ISS.

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The crews include three NASA astronauts.

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In May 2016, Kate Rubins will join the Expedition
48 crew already in orbit.

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Shane Kimbrough will follow on Expedition
49 and veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson will

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serve on Expedition 50.

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who developed
a strong social media following as a member

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of the Expedition 40/41 crew last year, was
on hand for several public events Feb. 10-12,

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in and around his hometown of Baltimore.

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Among those events was a ceremony at the Historic
Courthouse in Towson, where representatives

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of Baltimore County presented him with a Hero
pin.

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Wiseman also spoke to visitors at the Maryland
Science Center in Baltimore about his experience

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aboard the space station.

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NASA Associate Administrator for Science,
John Grunsfeld is one of four space shuttle

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astronauts selected for induction into the
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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The induction ceremony is scheduled for May
30th at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor

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Complex in Florida.

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Grunsfeld is best known as a robotics expert
who conducted three missions to repair and

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upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Steve Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and M. Rhea
Seddon, M.D.

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are the other astronauts selected for induction.

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After spending a month at the International
Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft

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was separated from the station on Feb. 10
with the Canadarm2 robotic arm and released

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for its return trip to Earth.

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Dragon, which completed the company’s fifth
commercial resupply mission to the station,

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brought back almost two tons of vital scientific
experiments and station hardware.

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The Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR
satellite was launched on Feb. 11, aboard

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a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Florida.

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The mission, a partnership between NOAA, NASA
and the U.S. Air Force, is designed to orbit

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the sun at the L1 Lagrange point – a stable,
neutral gravitational part of space, about

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a million miles from Earth and give accurate,
early warnings of solar activity that could

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potentially wreak havoc on systems and infrastructure
on Earth and avionics on aircraft.

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The spacecraft also carries two NASA Earth
science instruments to advance our understanding

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of our home planet.

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In recognition of African American History
Month, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden spoke

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at a Feb. 9 Federal Emergency Management Agency
event in Washington about the contributions

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of African Americans in public service and
the role of emergency preparedness throughout

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his professional career.

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Two days later, the Administrator gave a lecture
at the District’s MLK Memorial Library about

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the challenges facing African Americans in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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(STEM) related fields.

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“10 Things You Don’t Know about the NACA”
– a Feb. 10 presentation at NASA headquarters

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featuring the agency’s Chief Historian Bill
Barry, highlighted little-known facts, fascinating

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photos and other interesting details about
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,

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NASA’s predecessor, which was founded nearly
100 years ago -- on March 3, 1915.

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The NACA became NASA in 1958.

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