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

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On March 10, Expedition 42 Commander Barry
Wilmore of NASA handed over command of the

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International Space Station to NASA astronaut
and Expedition 43 commander Terry Virts.

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The next day, Wilmore and Alexander Samokutyaev
and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space

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Agency undocked from the station aboard a
Soyuz spacecraft.

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Several hours later the trio landed safely
in Kazakhstan – completing 167 days in space

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since launching in September 2014.

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The one-year crew, which includes NASA’s
Scott Kelly, continues pre-flight preparations

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in Russia for its launch to the station later
this month.

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Kelly and Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko
of the Russian Federal Space Agency are set

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to launch March 27 Eastern time to the station.

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Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year aboard
the orbiting laboratory – conducting research

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on the effects of long duration space travel
on the human body.

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A March 12 hearing convened by the Senate
Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness

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provided another opportunity for NASA Administrator
Charlie Bolden to testify about what the agency

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can accomplish with the $18.5 billion dollars
proposed under President Obama’s FY 2016

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budget.

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The funding will support further work on human
missions to an asteroid and to Mars, round-trips

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to the International Space Station for American
astronauts on commercial vehicles launched

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from Florida, improvements on Earth to aviation
and climate and more.

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The largest, most powerful booster ever built
that will help NASA's new Space Launch System

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rocket launch was successfully fired up for
a major ground test on March 11 at Orbital

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ATK's test facilities in Promontory, Utah.

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During the two-minute test, the booster was
heated to verify how it performs in high temperature

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conditions.

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This significant milestone for the SLS program
and NASA’s journey to Mars is the first

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of two ground tests to qualify the booster
for flight.

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The next test is planned for early next year.

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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission
launched March 12 aboard a United Launch Alliance

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Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida.

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The mission’s four identical observatories
will orbit earth -- providing the first-ever

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three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection
– a fundamental process that occurs throughout

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the universe during which interaction between
magnetic fields results in explosive energy

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that can accelerate particles to nearly the
speed of light.

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NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration
and Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier attended

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a March 12 media event at Bigelow Aerospace
in Las Vegas to showcase the Bigelow Expandable

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Activity Module or BEAM.

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The expandable test space habitat is scheduled
for launch later this year to the International

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Space Station on the eighth SpaceX resupply
mission.

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The BEAM will be attached to the station’s
Tranquility node for a two-year technology

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demonstration.

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered
the best evidence yet there’s an underground

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saltwater ocean on Jupiter’s largest moon,
Ganymede – an ocean that’s believed to

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hold more water than all the water on Earth's
surface.

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By observing aurorae at the moon’s polar
regions, scientists concluded a large amount

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of saltwater exists beneath Ganymede’s crust.

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Identifying liquid water is crucial in the
search for habitable worlds beyond Earth and

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for the search of life as we know it.

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The Office of Small Business Programs hosted
the NASA Industry Forum Spring 2015 meeting

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March 10 and 11 at NASA headquarters.

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The forum helps the Office of Small Business
Programs directly hear areas of concern for

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NASA centers and contractors, and discuss
possible solutions and improvements.

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Administrator Bolden and Office of Small Business
Programs Associate Administrator Glenn Delgado

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also presented the 2014 Fiscal Year Agency-Level
NASA Small Business Industry Awards at the

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forum.

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