This Week at NASA June 21, 2013

During an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced a Grand Challenge focused on finding and mitigating all asteroid threats to human populations. Grand Challenges, an important element of the President’s Strategy for American Innovation, are ambitious goals on a national or global scale that capture the imagination and demand advances in innovation, science and technology. Also, J-2X Engine Gimbal Test, Countdown to IRIS Mission, Armstrong Ceremony, Advancing Liquid Air Technology, GPM’s Solar Wings, 2013 W.E.S.T. Summit and more.