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

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The first mission designed to fly directly
into the sun’s atmosphere – Solar Probe

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Plus has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe,
in honor of University of Chicago physicist,

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Eugene Parker.

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Parker is best known for developing the concept
of solar wind, which is the stream of electrically

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charged particles emitted by the sun.

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This is the first time a NASA spacecraft has
been named after a living person.

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Targeted for launch in 2018, the mission will
help answer questions about the physics of

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how stars work.

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Our James Webb Space Telescope was showcased
during a May 31 event at Johnson Space Center.

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Starting in late June, humanity’s next great
observatory will undergo vacuum testing at

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Johnson – which can simulate the extremely
cold conditions of deep space.

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The powerful new telescope will launch in
2018 on its mission to study every phase in

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the history of our universe.

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The International Space Station’s Expedition
51 crew returned to Earth June 2 – touching

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down safely in Kazakhstan.

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Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian
Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight

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Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space
Agency) spent 196 days in space.

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Two of our astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Jack
Fischer, are among the crew still onboard

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the station conducting research and operational
work.

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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they

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are easy, but because they are hard.”

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May 29 marked what would have been President
John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday.

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His 1962 challenge to safely send humans to
the moon and back within the decade, was an

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important milestone that has led to many historic
accomplishments by our space program.

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