Next Expedition Crew on Deck on This Week @NASA

In Star City, Russia, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Expedition 32 crewmembers, Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency participated in traditional ceremonies in advance of their mid-July launch to the station. Malenchenko, Williams and Hoshide will complete their training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Upon their arrival to the space station, the trio will join ISS Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Cosmonaut Sergei Revin -- the other three members of Expedition 32. Also, Orion is Unveiled at Kennedy Space Center to begin processing for its Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014, some students and educators play rocket scientist during Rocket Week at Wallops Flight Facility, some pre-4th of July Solar fireworks captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and more!

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[KittyRavage]

Science is a wonderful thing :)

[Triglavus]

I laughed. 1/10 troll harder.

[jdbell14]

Angelique Bell @ 7:16!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sw00natra]

No matter how many times I watch that video, it never ceases to amaze me. I've begun to memorize the statistics and numbers, haha.

[wii2050]

If we ever land on Mars, let's just draw some "crop circles" on the sand and leave.

[RufftaMan]

most probably, since i'm subscribed to the jpl channel as well ^^

the "curiosity's seven minutes of terror" video is very well made, feels like a movie trailer or something. =)

[sw00natra]

Curiosity is definitely going to be an impressive mission. Have you seen this from the JPL channel?

[RufftaMan]

some rovers and probes have, but no humans yet.

the next object to land on mars will be the curiosity rover which is as big as a small car.

make sure you don't miss it's landing on august 5th, will be very exciting. =)

[THE16THPHANTOM]

i'm might/will still be alive when we land on Mars.

very excited.