MEDIA ADVISORY
In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of July 25 - July 29, 2016
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Cheryl Harrell Brings Experience and Passion to Space Launch System Program Office
Cheryl Harrell’s journey to NASA began in elementary school, just a few miles down the road from NASA’s Langley Research Center. Today, she brings her skills and 28 years of diverse NASA experience to the Space Launch System Program Office, as manager of the Program Planning and Control Office.
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2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records
Two key climate change indicators have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880.
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Build it. Test it. Then, Fly it.
Hundreds of pieces of rockets, rocket engines, boosters, space capsules, launch structures and more have been built, tested and prepared to take us on our journey to Mars. Across the country, America’s space program is hard at work to launch the Orion space capsule on its first uncrewed flight atop the powerful Space Launch System in 2018.
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(Video 5:54) Plants Grown on ISS Could Impact Future Space Travel
The International Space Station is a garden for seedlings that scientists are studying as part of NASA's journey to Mars. In this week's Space Station Live, we talk with the principal investigator of the Plant RNA Regulation experiment, which examines how plants grow in space. The information will be vital to plans for growing plants as sources of food and oxygen for crews of future deep-space missions.
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Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field Of Sun and Its Kin
Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the sun and stars like it are generated. Researchers have discovered that four old red dwarf stars with masses less than half that of the sun are emitting X-rays at a much lower rate than expected.
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