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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of April 18 - April 22, 2016
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NASA Celebrates Earth Day With #24Seven Campaign
It’s Earth Day, the one day a year dedicated to our home in space. In celebration, NASA is sharing on the many ways people all around the world protect, improve and celebrate Earth. Social media followers are also encouraged to share what they are doing on Earth Day by using #24Seven. Follow NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on Twitter and Facebook to see how Marshall scientists help better understand our planet. For a complete picture of all the things NASA is doing to gather vital information about Earth, click here.
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Video (4:51): Space Station Live: Windows on Earth
We’ve all benefited from photographs NASA astronauts have shared from the International Space Station, but taking a photo while travelling 17,500 mph can be a little tricky. “Windows on Earth,” a suite of software tools, helps astronauts snap photographs as they key in on cities or landmarks. In this video, NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at Marshall talks to Windows on Earth Principal Investigator Dan Barstow.
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Welding Wonder Completes Hardware for First Flight of NASA's SLS Rocket
Flight hardware for the core stage of the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System, recently finished final welding and was moved off the 170-foot-tall Vertical Assembly Center at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The hardware, for the engine section, is the first major SLS flight component to finish full welding on the massive tool.
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NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources
Recently, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. Less than half a second later, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope picked up a brief, weak burst of high-energy light consistent with the same part of the sky. Valerie Connaughton, a Huntsville-based GBM team member is lead author of a paper on the burst now under review by The Astrophysical Journal. Gamma-rays arising from a black hole merger would be a landmark finding because black holes are expected to merge “cleanly,” without producing any sort of light.
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We’ve Got (Rocket) Chemistry, Part 2
In the second part of the two-part series, the Rocketology blog explains how solid rocket fuel works, and the role it will play on NASA’s journey to Mars. The original rocket fuel, solid rocket fuel, dates back to the early fireworks developed by the Chinese centuries ago.
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NASA Tests Earthquake Mitigation System at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Engineers from NASA and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tested a new technology April 14 that could potentially make buildings much safer during earthquakes. Originally developed to solve vibration issues encountered during a rocket launch, the disruptive tuned mass system has potential applications across multiple industries to improve damper systems on buildings, ships, automobiles, airplanes, helicopters, bridges and much more.
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Prizes Awarded for Student Launch and Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge
After the smoke cleared from a long day of high-powered rocket launches April 16, NASA announced the preliminary award winners for the 2016 NASA Student Launch Challenge and the final award winners of the Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge. Sponsored by NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge awarded $50,000 in prize money to its top three teams. Student Launch will announce overall winners in early May, with first place winning $5,000.
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