This Week @NASA

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Ron Garan and his fellow Expedition 28 flight engineers returned safely to Earth with a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Administrator Charlie Bolden was on Capitol Hill for the announcement of NASA's selected design of its new Space Launch System.
Construction has begun on the first new NASA orbit-bound, human spacecraft to be built in 20 years.
NASA has agreed to collaborate with Alliant Techsystems on the development of ATK's commercial Liberty Launch System; part of the agency's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 activities.
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered its first circumbinary planet, a planet that orbits two suns.
NASA participated in a MacArthur Foundation-sponsored event to culminate a digital badges competition.
During an elegant evening at the historic Caltech Athenaeum, JPL Director Charles Elachi was inducted into the French Legion, the highest honor awarded by France.
A new interactive online program called 'Rockets to Race Cars' introduces NASCAR fans to NASA-created products making auto racing faster and safer.

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