In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of Sept. 5 - Sept. 9, 2016
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NASA Tests New Insulation for SLS Rocket
You may not think about insulation much, but it's one of those unsung industry heroes that keeps our drinks cold and homes warm on those bone-chilling winter days. Insulation also is a key component to protecting NASA's Space Launch System and its super-cold fuels for the journey to Mars.
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OSIRIS-REx Launches On Mission to Survey and Sample Near-Earth Asteroid
NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer -- OSIRIS-REx -- spacecraft launched this week from NASA's Kennedy Space Center en route to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. OSIRIS-REx will reach Bennu in 2018, survey the asteroid and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
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NASA’s Record-breaking Astronaut, Crewmates Safely Return to Earth
NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams returned to Earth this week after his U.S. record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station. Williams and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, of Roscosmos, landed Sept. 6 in Kazakhstan. Williams has now spent 534 days in space, making him first on the all-time NASA astronaut list for time in space.
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NASA Awards $750K in Sample Return Robot Challenge
After two days of intense robotics competition, the West Virginia University Mountaineers of Morgantown took home $750,000 -- the largest prize awarded in the five-year run of NASA’s Sample Return Robot Challenge. This challenge was the culmination of five years of competition that began in 2012, and drew more than 50 teams.
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Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system’s gas-giant planets.
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Going Green Comes Up Gold for Marshall's Donna Leach
At NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Donna Leach wears a lot of different hats -- all green. A leader in a variety of green initiatives in Marshall's Environmental Engineering & Occupational Health Office as lead engineer for sustainability, Leach recently received the Federal Women's Program Outstanding Achievement Award for exceptional professional service to Marshall and NASA.
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