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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
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Dynasty Continues as Marshall Wins Fifth Small Business Administrator’s Cup
For the second straight year and the fifth time in the last eight years, Marshall was awarded the Small Business Administrator’s Cup, which recognizes the center’s work promoting the participation of small businesses in helping NASA achieve its goals.
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(Video 7:12) Green Chemistry for the Red Planet
Marshall scientists are learning how an environmentally friendly experiment can help hold future spacecraft together. The ionic liquid epoxy is one of hundreds of materials tested as part of the Materials on the International Space Station Experiment. A special class of fluids, ionic liquids may also help extract oxygen or water from Martian soil.
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(Video 2:38) No Small Steps: Rocket Fuel
As we prepare for the second qualification solid rocket booster test, QM-2, for NASA’s Space Launch System, it’s the perfect time to learn more about rocket fuel. SLS will use both liquid and solid rocket fuel on its journey, but what exactly does that mean? Check out this great video, and the rest in the series, on Marshall’s YouTube channel.
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Social Roundup: Bolden Press Conference Highlighted on Instagram
While in town last week, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with local media to discuss the nation’s journey to Mars and how SLS will provide the launch capability to get us there. Click above to visit Marshall’s Instagram page to learn more.
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NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
Using observations from NASA’s Great Observatories, including the Marshall-managed Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have found the best evidence yet for “cosmic seeds” as an explanation of how supermassive black holes are formed. If confirmed, this discovery could explain how these cosmic seeds grew into monster black holes.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Prepared for Mission to an Asteroid
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was unboxed at Kennedy Space Center on May 21 to prepare for its scheduled Sept. 8 launch. OSIRIS-Rex -- the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by Marshall -- will collect a pristine sample of an asteroid's surface material and return it back to Earth in 2023.
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