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

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NASA has selected four astronauts to work
closely with two U.S. commercial companies

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that will return human spaceflight launches
to Florida’s Space Coast.

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NASA named veteran astronauts and experienced
test pilots Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas

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Hurley and Sunita Williams to work closely
with Boeing and SpaceX.

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NASA contracted with Boeing and SpaceX to
develop crew transportation systems and provide

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crew transportation services to and from the
International Space Station.

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The agency will select the commercial crew
astronauts from this group of four for the

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first test, which is scheduled for 2017.

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After two years of intensive training, NASA
has eight new astronauts who will help advance

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scientific knowledge on the space station
and help pave the way for America’s new

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space launch capabilities and journey to Mars.

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The new astronauts, which were announced in
June 2013, were selected from more than 6,300

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applicants - the second largest number NASA
has ever received.

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The group reported to Johnson Space Center
in August of that year to begin technical

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space system training, robotics instruction
and specialized hardware and science training

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around the globe.

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As of July 7, they had successfully completed
their training and will now support mission

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operations and technical duties while awaiting
spaceflight assignments.

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After a July 4 anomaly caused NASA’s New
Horizons spacecraft to go into “safe mode,”

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the mission is back to normal operations and
is on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto.

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Investigators concluded the underlying cause
of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing

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flaw in the spacecraft command sequence, and
that no hardware or software fault resulted

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from the anomaly.

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Before that incident, New Horizons transmitted
more high-resolution views of Pluto, including

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a color image showing the four mysterious
dark spots on Pluto that have captured the

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imagination of the world.

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NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, International
Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffredini

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and SpaceX President Elon Musk were among
those in attendance at the fourth annual ISS

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R&D Conference, July 7-9 in Boston.

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The event brought together leading minds in
scientific research from the commercial and

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academic communities.

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NASA also released the print version of a
new NASA book at the conference titled, “Benefits

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for Humanity.”

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The publication, which also is available online,
highlights research aboard the space station

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and how it helps improve lives on Earth, while
advancing NASA's ambitious human exploration

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goals.

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The space station’s Expedition 44 crew received
a delivery of more than three tons of food,

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fuel and supplies from an unpiloted Russian
Progress cargo ship that successfully docked

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to the outpost on July 5.

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The Progress, which had launched from Kazakhstan
two days earlier, is scheduled to remain at

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the station for the next four months.

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Meanwhile, NASA’s Kjell Lindgren and the
remaining members of the Expedition 44/45

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crew continue with pre-flight training activities
in Russia, ahead of their upcoming trip to

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the ISS.

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The launch to the station of Lindgren, Oleg
Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency

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and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency is targeted for July 22.

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Technicians at NASA's Langley Research Center
conducted a crash test with a single engine

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Cessna 172 airplane to test four emergency
locator transmitters, or ELTs, installed on

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board.

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The research, funded by the NASA Search and
Rescue Mission Office at NASA's Goddard Space

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Flight Center, is designed to improve the
emergency transmitters' performance.

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ELTs are supposed to transmit a distress signal
within 50 seconds of an airplane crash.

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The signal can be picked up by passing aircraft,
nearby ground stations or a National Oceanic

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and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite.

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