In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
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(Video 2:58) Working With Gravity to Get to Mars
In the fourth installment of the "No Small Steps" video series, we discuss how working with gravity, instead of against it, is the easiest way to get where you want it to go and how NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System will do this to send missions to Mars.
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NASA Engineers Test Combustion Chamber to Advance 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Design
Recent tests of a developmental rocket engine at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center produced all the performance data engineers were hoping for, along with the traditional fire and roar. But this engine is anything but traditional. Marshall engineers are designing each of the components from scratch to ultimately be made entirely by additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, methods.
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Space Gardener Shane Kimbrough Enjoys First of Multiple Harvests
For a mid-afternoon snack, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough cut some of the Red Romaine lettuce leaves he's nurtured during the past month aboard the International Space Station. Kimbrough has taken on the part-time role of on-orbit gardener, working virtually autonomously to cultivate the crops, although gardeners on the ground helped in the beginning.
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NASA Scientists see Asteroid through the Eyes of a Robot
Retrieving an asteroid sample is no easy task. Doing the job blindfolded is even more challenging. That’s why scientists equipped the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a set of eyes to watch it all unfold. The spacecraft is travelling to an asteroid to harvest a sample of surface material, and return it to Earth for study. A trio of cameras will capture it all.
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Spinoff 2017 Shows How NASA Technology Makes a Difference on Earth
Released this week, the Spinoff 2017 publication takes a close look at NASA innovations that we all benefit from. Many spinoffs featured were developed by Marshall, including temperature-regulating fabrics keep babies comfortable, a rocket technology that stops shaking in its tracks, a large-scale 3-D printer that brings manufacturing to the masses and many more.
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