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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of Aug. 15 - Aug. 19, 2016
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#NASAMarsDay Shares NASA's Journey to Mars
It was a busy day Aug. 18 around NASA as about 100 credentialed social media followers and 30 journalists learned first hand about the journey to Mars as they toured the Michoud Assembly Facility and watched a RS-25 engine test at the Stennis Space Center. They shared their experiences online on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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(Video 1:00) Done in 60 Seconds: Massive Rocket Fuel Tank Built in A Minute
It took 76 days to weld a massive 130-foot-long liquid hydrogen tank for NASA’s Space Launch System -- the agency's new heavy-lift rocket -- but this time-lapse video shows the construction and rotation of the massive fuel tank in just 60 seconds at the Vehicle Assembly Center at Michoud.
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First Results Show Success for Second NASA SLS Booster Test
For two heart-pumping minutes, the booster for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, demonstrated its power and operated as planned during a successful test June 28. The smoke has well cleared from that test, but critical data continues to pour in, as NASA prepares for the first, uncrewed flight of SLS.
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NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA is preparing to launch the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid and return a sample to Earth for intensive study. OSIRIS-REx will map asteroid Bennu measuring its topography and shape in unprecedented detail and gather information needed to prepare for human travel to deep space.
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Supernova Ejected from the Pages of History
A new look at the debris from an exploded star in our galaxy has astronomers re-examining when the supernova actually happened. Recent observations of a supernova remnant with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have stripped away its connection to an event recorded by the Chinese in 386 CE.
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NASA Space Robotics Challenge Prepares Robots for the Journey to Mars
NASA and partners have opened registration for a new competition -- the Space Robotics Challenge -- seeking to develop the capabilities of humanoid robots to help astronauts on the journey to Mars. The challenge is a $1 million prize competition designed to push the boundaries of robotic dexterity.
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