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

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During a Feb. 2 event at NASA’s Marshall
Space Flight Center, officials announced the

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selection of 13 low-cost small satellites
to launch as secondary payloads on Exploration

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Mission-1 (EM-1) -- the first flight of the
agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket,

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targeted for 2018.

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SLS’ first flight is designed to launch
an un-crewed Orion spacecraft to a stable

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orbit beyond the moon to demonstrate and test
systems for both the spacecraft and rocket

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before the first crewed flight of Orion.

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The announced CubeSat secondary payloads will
carry science and technology investigations

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to help pave the way for future human exploration
in deep space, including the Journey to Mars.

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Marshall Space Flight Center, which manages
development of the SLS for NASA, has a new

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Center Director.

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On Feb. 1, Administrator Charlie Bolden named
Todd May to the post.

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May had been serving as acting director since
the November 2015 retirement of previous Center

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Director Patrick Scheuermann.

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Since 2011, May has successfully led the Space
Launch System program through a series of

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developmental milestones.

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The SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever
built.

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The 18th and final primary mirror segment
on what will be the biggest and most powerful

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space telescope ever launched -- the James
Webb Space Telescope -- was installed Feb.

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4 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

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The installation is an important milestone
in the assembly of the tennis court-sized

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infrared observatory.

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The Webb telescope will study every phase
in the history of our universe, including

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the formation of solar systems capable of
supporting life on planets similar to Earth,

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as well as the evolution of our own solar
system.

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Webb is targeted to launch in 2018.

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On Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft executed
the first of two maneuvers to fine tune its

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course to its target destination -- Jupiter.

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The trajectory adjustment took place when
the spacecraft was about 51 million miles

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from Jupiter and approximately 425 million
miles from Earth.

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Juno will spend a year studying Jupiter’s
atmosphere, interior and magnetosphere from

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an unprecedented perspective.

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This will improve our understanding of the
solar system's beginnings by revealing the

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origin and evolution of the planet.

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Juno, which is scheduled to rendezvous with
Jupiter on July 4, will perform the next trajectory

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correction maneuver around late May.

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Aboard the International Space Station, Russian
cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov

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of Roscosmos conducted a spacewalk on Feb.
3 to install experiment packages on the outside

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of the Russian segment of the station, retrieve
some experiments that have been gathering

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data for several months, and install devices
on the hull of the station to facilitate the

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movement of crew members on future spacewalks.

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The spacewalk was the 193rd in support of
space station assembly and maintenance.

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About eight acres of redwood planks previously
used as roofing material for Ames Research

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Center’s iconic Hangar One at Moffett Field,
California have found new purpose at nearby

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Levi’s Stadium -- the brand-new home of
the National Football League’s San Francisco

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49ers, and the site of the Feb. 7 Super Bowl.

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Incorporating the reclaimed and locally sourced
material into the stadium structure earned

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it the federally recognized Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold

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certification.

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