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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. 22 - Aug. 26, 2016
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(Infographic) What You Need to Know About the SLS Core Stage
Here's everything you need to know about the 212-foot-tall core stage that serves as the backbone of the most powerful rocket in the world, NASA's Space Launch System. This massive stage will hold 733,000 gallons of propellant needed for liftoff and the journey to Mars.
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NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Racks Up New Time-In-Space Record
You don’t have to go to Rio to see Americans breaking records -- you can find one orbiting 250 miles above Earth. This week, NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams surpassed 520 days living in space, breaking Scott Kelly’s previous record for most cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut, set during Kelly’s Year in Space, from March 2015 through March 2016.
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(Video 0:51) Spacewalk May Double Space Station Science
By simply adding a new door, NASA astronauts may have doubled the amount of science and research that can be performed on the International Space Station. NASA astronauts conducted a six-hour spacewalk on the station Aug. 19 to attach the first of two new international docking adapters to the orbiting laboratory.
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Plugging Away Inside Massive SLS Fuel Tank
A new photo taken inside a liquid hydrogen tank for NASA's Space Launch System shows the awe-inspiring tank's massive size. Workers completing welds on the interior of the tank are dwarfed in comparison to the heavy-lift rocket's fuel tank, which is 130 feet tall and over 27 feet in diameter.
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NASA Takes to the Air to Study Climate Effects of Smoke on Clouds
NASA is mounting an airborne campaign to study how smoke and soot released by fires and industry in Africa influences clouds over the Atlantic Ocean. The mission, dubbed ORACLES, will observe and measure clouds off the coast of Namibia using two aircraft equipped with dozens of science instruments -- including Marshall's Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer.
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