In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

July 08, 2016  In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of July 4 - July 8, 2016   NASA's Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter This Fourth of July, a day already worthy of celebration, NASA's Juno spacecraft added another reason to cheer on America's birthday. The spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit after a five-year, 1.7-billion-mile journey from Earth. Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.   New Crew Members, Including NASA Biologist, Launch to Space Station NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi launched July 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station. All three will spend approximately four months on the orbiting laboratory, returning to Earth in October.   New Horizons Receives Mission Extension to Kuiper Belt The Marshall-managed New Frontiers program received some good news this week. Following the historic, first-ever flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, the mission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. The spacecraft’s rendezvous with the ancient object -- considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system -- is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2019.   NASA's eCryo Webpage Receives Major Upgrade The Evolvable Cryogenics project's webpage received a major upgrade this week. The eCryo project -- a NASA Technology Demonstration Mission led by Glenn Research Center with support from Marshall -- is developing and validating cryogenic fuel storage and transfer technologies for possible integration into future space vehicles and systems. For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall. For past issues of the ICYMI newsletter, click here. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to msfc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to msfc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

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