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

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NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrated the 3-year
anniversary of its landing on Mars recently.

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Since landing, Curiosity has driven nearly
seven miles to its current location at Mount

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Sharp, and found evidence of past conditions
suitable for microbial life.

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To mark the anniversary, NASA is unveiling
two new online tools that will bring the Mars

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experience to a new generation of explorers.

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“Mars Trek” is a free, web-based application
that uses more than 40 years of Mars exploration

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data, to provide high-quality imagery of the
planet’s features.

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"Experience Curiosity" is a 3-D simulation
program that also uses real data, to take

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viewers along with Curiosity during the rover’s
expeditions on the Martian surface.

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Since NASA’s robotic explorers became the
first to study the Red Planet, advances in

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technology have enabled Mars exploration missions
to continue making important scientific discoveries

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and pave the way for humans to reach Mars
in the 2030s.

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During an Aug. 6 visit to Marshall Space Flight
Center, NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman

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visited the agency’s Composites Technology
Center to see the massive robot that will

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help NASA build the biggest lightweight composite
parts ever made for space vehicles.

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The head on the robot’s 21-foot arm uses
up to 16 spools of “hair-thin” carbon

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fibers to create the precisely shaped parts.

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Lightweight composites could increase the
weight an exploration spacecraft, like NASA’s

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new Space Launch System rocket can carry,
while also decreasing the total cost of building

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the vehicle.

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NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Jack Fischer
are among those named to the Expeditions 51

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and 52 crews to the station in 2017 that will
continue important research to advance NASA's

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journey to Mars and make discoveries that
can benefit all of humanity.

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When Vande Hei and his crewmates arrive at
the ISS in March 2017, veteran NASA astronaut

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Peggy Whitson will be part of the crew already
onboard.

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Fischer will follow as part of the Soyuz crew
scheduled to arrive in May 2017.

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The next round of NASA’s CubeSat Launch
Initiative is underway – giving students,

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educators and others in the growing community
of space enthusiasts, an opportunity to help

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the agency achieve its space exploration goals.

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The initiative provides hands-on experience
in designing, building and operating the small

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research satellites.

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The program also provides access to space
for the hardware, as secondary payloads on

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NASA spaceflights.

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Not to upstage the man in the moon … but
this shot of the International Space Station

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zipping by the moon is pretty cool.

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NASA photographer, Bill Ingalls, captured
the station’s lunar transit on Aug. 2 in

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the skies over Northern Virginia.

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For information on how to spot the station
in your backyard, go to http://spotthestation.nasa.gov.

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And on Aug. 5, NASA released another shot
of the moon, but this was from a million miles

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away from Earth:

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A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate
Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this

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unique view of the moon as it moved in front
of the sunlit side of Earth in July.

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The series of test images in this animation
shows the fully illuminated “dark side”

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of the moon that is never visible from Earth.

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