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

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“I want to thank everyone on the ground
first.

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Team work makes the dream work in spaceflight.”

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After spending nearly a year aboard the International
Space Station -- conducting a host of biomedical

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and psychological research on the impacts
of long-duration spaceflight on the human

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body, NASA’s Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko
of the Russian space agency Roscosmos wrapped

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up their historic mission on March 1 – saying
farewell to the crew staying on the station.

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“Getting ready to depart the International
Space Station.”

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Then climbing aboard the Soyuz spacecraft
with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, to begin their

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journey back to Earth.

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“Undocked from the International Space Station.

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Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly, Sergey Volkov
– on their way home.”

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Several hours later, the three floated to
a safe parachute landing in Kazakhstan … back

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on solid ground for the first time in 340
days, it was not long before they were enjoying

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some of the things that they have missed most
about being on Earth.

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“Scott just looked at us and said, ‘The
air feels great out here, I have no idea why

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you guys are all bundled up.”

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Just over a day, later – at Houston’s
Ellington Field, near Johnson Space Center,

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a host of family, colleagues and VIPs were
there to welcome Kelly back to the United

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States, including Second Lady of the United
States Dr. Jill Biden, Assistant to the President

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for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren,
and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

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There were cheers, embraces and expressions
of appreciation for his efforts to help advance

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deep space exploration and America’s Journey
to Mars.

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“People love you; they love everything you’ve
done.

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So, on behalf of all of us, welcome back.”

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“It’s going to help us figure out how
to deal with those physiological changes on

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the even longer missions that are ahead, when
we go to Mars – and we are going to go to

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Mars there is no doubt about that, we are
committed to it.”

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“You are truly are an inspiration to all
of us.

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You’re doing that for so many young Americans
and I thank you for that.”

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“This mission is the latest achievement
in our country’s space program, but it’s

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not the last; there will be more.

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It’s in our DNA of our country to explore
and we must never stop doing this – we must

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lead, we must learn and we must discover.”

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Back in Russia, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams
is preparing for his third tour aboard the

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International Space Station.

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On March 3, Williams and Expedition 47-48
crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka

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of Roscosmos participated in traditional ceremonies
before heading off to the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan, to complete final training
for their March 18 Eastern time launch to

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the station for a six-month mission.

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During a Feb. 29 media event at Ronald Reagan
Washington National Airport in Arlington,

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Virginia, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
and Associate Administrator for Aeronautics

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Research, Jaiwon Shin, announced the selection
of a team led by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

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Company to complete the preliminary design
for Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) – a

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“low boom” flight demonstration aircraft.

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It is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’
called for under NASA's New Aviation Horizons

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initiative to build a clean transportation
system for the 21st century.

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This development brings the return of supersonic
passenger air travel a step closer to reality.

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Also on Feb. 29, at Glenn Research Center’s
Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, engineers

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deployed a solar array wing on the test version
of the Orion spacecraft’s service module.

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The 24-foot wing qualification model provided
by the European Space Agency (ESA) was deployed

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to confirm that the array unfurled properly,
and that all mechanical parts worked as expected.

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It was also an important first step to verify
Orion’s power system for Exploration Mission-1,

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its first flight on NASA’s Space Launch
System rocket.

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NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation,
Resource Identification, Security-Regolith

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Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled
to launch in September to asteroid Bennu – on

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the first U.S. mission to collect a sample
of an asteroid and return it to Earth for

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study.

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The agency is looking for people to create
art that expresses how the mission’s spirit

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of exploration is reflected in their own lives,
and submit those creative expressions to ride

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onboard the spacecraft.

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Submissions will be accepted via Twitter and
Instagram until March 20.

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