In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

	March 10, 2017  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of March 6-10, 2017   (Video TIME) Smoke and Fire with a 360 View of RS-25 Engine Test See the power of 512,000 pounds of thrust as this 360 video takes you inside the Feb. 22 RS-25 engine hot-fire test. The view offers a unique perspective of an engine that with three other RS-25s will produce 2 million pounds of thrust, aiding in launching the world's most powerful rocket -- NASA's Space Launch System.   Marshall Payload Planners: They Love it When a Plan Comes Together The Payload Planning Team in NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center maps out each six-month science expedition to the International Space Station down to the minute -- and they do it six months before the crew ever arrives.   Astronauts Begin More Than a Dozen New Investigations on Orbit This week International Space Station crew began activation of more than a dozen science investigations. The investigations include the Lightning Imaging Sensor, an investigation that will examine lightning strikes on Earth, and the Long Duration Sorbent Testbed, which scientists are using to create a more efficient life support system for long-duration, crewed space missions   NASA Grants Free Public Access to Exploration Technologies NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees. The catalog includes many of the tools NASA uses to explore space and broaden our understanding of the universe.   (Video 2:58) Marshall Video Celebrates #InternationalWomensDay Wednesday, Marshall celebrated #InternationalWomensDay on Facebook and Twitter. Women have always played a pivotal role in NASA's success, and we are proud to embrace our talented workforce every day. Check out the video on Marshall's Facebook. For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall. For past issues of the ICYMI newsletter, click here.
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