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

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Expedition 43, the next crew headed to the
International Space Station is conducting

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final training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan.

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NASA’s Scott Kelly and Gennady Padalka and
Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian

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Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled
for launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on March

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27 at 3:42 p.m. Eastern.

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Kelly and Kornienko will become the first
crew to conduct a one-year research mission

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aboard the orbital laboratory.

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A March 18 news conference at Johnson Space
Center in Houston featured NASA Astronaut

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Kjell Lindgren and his Expedition 44/45 crewmates
– discussing their upcoming mission to the

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ISS.

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Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal
Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace

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Exploration Agency will launch to the space
station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft May 26 from

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Kazakhstan.

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The heat shield for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
is at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,

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Alabama for 2-3 months of testing following
Orion’s successful flight test in December.

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Samples of the heat shield’s ablative material
will be studied and analyzed to better understand

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its performance during Orion’s high-velocity
return to Earth on the flight.

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After the tests, technicians will mill off
the ablative coating before transferring the

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heat shield to NASA’s Langley Research Center,
in Virginia, for water impact testing.\h

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Training for spacewalks underwater in gigantic
pools like NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab or

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NBL, in Houston, was the focus of a March
19 What's New in Aerospace?

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presentation at the Smithsonian National Air
and Space Museum in Washington.

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Water is uniquely suited for spacewalk training
because it provides extended periods of simulated

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microgravity.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the
first two spacewalks in history – March

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18, 1965 by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov,
followed by U.S. astronaut Edward White a

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few months later on June 3, during the Gemini
IV mission.

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On March 23, fifty years ago, astronauts Virgil
“Gus” Grissom and John Young flew on Gemini

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3.

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The 3-orbit, nearly 5-hour flight in the “Molly
Brown” spacecraft was the first human mission

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in NASA's Gemini program.

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The mission also saw the first orbital maneuver
by any human-piloted spacecraft when a short

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burn of the orbit attitude and maneuvering
system (OAMS) was completed near the end of

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the first orbit.

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The South by Southwest festival, March 13-18
in Austin, Texas, featured NASA exhibits,

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panel discussions and presentations that highlighted
how technology drives exploration of the skies

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and space; how NASA is exploring Earth, the
solar system and beyond; provided updates

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on our journey to Mars; and outlined how festival
attendees can collaborate with NASA on citizen

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science projects and submit new ideas for
NASA challenges.

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The only total solar eclipse of 2015 took
place March 20 and was only visible in parts

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of Iceland, Europe, Northern Africa and Northern
Asia – with the totality of the eclipse

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only visible for its entire 2-minutes 47-seconds
from a pair of small island groups in that

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region.

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The next total solar eclipse visible in the
U.S. will be on August 21, 2017.

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