This Week @NASA

More than 250 students joined with astronaut Leland Melvin and Administrator Charles Bolden at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help kickoff NASA's Summer of Innovation.
The launch nears for Expedition 24's three new members. Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, and NASA astronauts Dough Wheelock and Shannon Walker are slated to liftoff on a Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 15. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 2:35 p.m. Pacific.
The Langley Research Center has broken ground on a new facility dedicated to bringing astronauts home safely from space.
The Marshall Space Flight Center honored the 'best of the best' during its Honor Awards ceremony. The awards acknowledge exceptional contributions by both civil servant and contractor employees.
NASA's second Global Hawk Earth sciences aircraft has completed its first checkout flight.
The California School for the Blind is among six schools in the San Francisco Bay Area that've hosted 'Space Day' activities including a Traveling Space Museum from the Ames Research Center.
The Ames Research Center turned the spotlight on NASA's collaborative 'Smart Skies' project by showcasing the curriculum's software at a kick-off media event.

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Science & Technology

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