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

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Sept. 15 marked the halfway point in the yearlong
mission on the International Space Station

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with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian
cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.

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An event the day before at the National Press
Club in Washington included a discussion about

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the biomedical research conducted on the station,
to help formulate future human missions to

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Mars.

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Kelly participated from the space station.

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His identical twin, retired NASA astronaut
Mark Kelly, and NASA astronaut Terry Virts,

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who served as commander of Expedition 43,
participated from the press club.

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And as part of the activities celebrating
the halfway point of the One-Year mission,

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NASA teamed with the community observatory
organization, Slooh on Sept. 16 to broadcast

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live views of the space station on NASA TV
and the agency’s website as the station

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passed over Slooh’s network of ground-based
telescopes.

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The broadcast featured NASA experts discussing
work on the space station and the future of

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space exploration.

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Astronaut Terry Virts also made appearances
in Baltimore during his Washington-area visit.

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At Fort McHenry, he presented officials with
a flag flown in space during his mission.

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They gave Virts a flag flown over the fort,
on the recent anniversary of the 1814 battle

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that inspired the writing of the Star Spangled
Banner.

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Later that evening, Virts returned a baseball
jersey flown in space to the Baltimore Orioles

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during a pre-game ceremony at Camden Yards.

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NASA has completed a rigorous technical and
programmatic review for the Orion spacecraft,

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confirming continued support of the program
and establishing the agency’s commitment

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to the program’s technical, cost, and schedule
baseline.

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This is the first time NASA has reached this
level of progress for a spacecraft designed

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to take humans into deep space beyond the
moon, including to an asteroid placed in lunar

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orbit and on the journey to Mars.

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New research, using data from NASA's Cassini
spacecraft has determined a global ocean lies

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beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically
active moon Enceladus.

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According to researchers, the magnitude of
the moon's very slight wobble, as it orbits

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Saturn, can only be accounted for by the presence
of a global ocean.

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On Sept. 17, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
joined Terry Virts and Expedition 43 Flight

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Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, for
a town hall hosted by the U.S. Agency for

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International Development (USAID) at the Reagan
Building, in Washington to discuss the SERVIR

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partnership.

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The joint venture between the agencies provides
state-of-the-art, satellite-based imagery

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and data of Earth to help improve environmental
decision-making in developing countries.

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The ISERV camera onboard the International
Space Station, provides some of this data.

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According to a NASA analysis of satellite
data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice summertime minimum

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extent is the fourth lowest on record since
observations from space began.

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Arctic sea ice cover helps regulate the planet’s
temperature by reflecting solar energy back

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to space.

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The sea ice cap’s minimum summertime extent
has been decreasing since the late 1970s in

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response to warming temperatures.

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On Sept. 16, Administrator Bolden and NASA
Associate Administrator for Small Business,

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Glen Delgado visited Alabama A&M University
to hear success stories about a mentor program

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sponsored by NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne.

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That visit and an annual event at the U.S.
Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama

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are part of a NASA initiative to help connect
the agency’s prime contractors with colleges

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and universities that serve minority students.

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Some NASA employees, who served as technical
consultants for the new movie, “The Martian”

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attended the Sept. 11 premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival, to discuss the

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movie’s realistic portrayal of the challenges
NASA faces in getting humans to Mars in the

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2030s.

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A few days later at Johnson Space Center,
some of the film’s cast members saw NASA

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at work during a tour that included a stop
at the International Space Station’s mission

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control and a call to the station.

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Then on Sept. 17 at NASA Headquarters, Administrator
Bolden led an agency-wide discussion about

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the film’s use of real NASA science and
exploration of Mars.

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NASA is already working on many of the technologies
depicted in the movie required for a human

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mission to Mars.

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