This Week @NASA

Final preparations continue at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory.
Now that Expedition 29 crew members Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov are back on Earth, the three remaining residents of the International Space Station are getting ready to welcome another trio to Expedition 30. Also changing lives is a spinoff of important equipment aboard the ISS. Canadarm, Canadarm2 and Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's family of heavy-lifting space robots on board the ISS, have born neuroArm, the world's first robot capable of performing surgery inside magnetic resonance machines.
Administrator Charlie Bolden was at the Marshall Space Flight Center for a first-hand look at work on NASA's new Space Launch System, the rocket that'll make deep space missions possible.
The Mighty Eagle, NASA's robotic lander designed to explore the surface of the moon, asteroids and other destinations, performed a successful altitude test flight at the Redstone Test Center on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
Once again, a nationwide survey ranks NASA as the fifth-best place to work in the Federal government.
Matthew Ritsko, a Financial Manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center, is the winner of the third annual White House SAVE Award, a contest that solicits cost-cutting ideas from federal employees.
The Women@NASA website has expanded to include Aspire 2 Inspire, a new feature aimed at helping middle school girls explore education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
NASA spinoffs are the subject of two new Public Service Announcements airing on NASA TV.
And while you ate Thanksgiving dinner and watched football on TV, NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin passed the irradiated ... and the best view from any Thanksgiving table anywhere.

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