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

	March 31, 2017  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of March 27-31, 2017   Structural Tests Underway for Top of World’s Most Powerful Rocket Testing is underway at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on the agency’s new Space Launch System, the world’s most powerful rocket. Engineers have stacked four qualification articles of the upper part of SLS into a 65-foot-tall test stand where they are pulling and twisting the rocket hardware, subjecting it to loads up to 40 percent greater than that expected during flight.   Christy Kennamer Helps Guide Science on the International Space Station When Christy Kennamer landed her first full-time job, she actually disappointed her parents. If they had known it would eventually lead to an important role supporting the International Space Station, they might not have minded so much. Today, she supports the Payload Operations Integration Center -- mission control for science on the space station.   Robots Invade Huntsville for the FIRST Robotics 'Rocket City Regional' For the second year Huntsville hosted a FIRST regional this week, with NASA as lead sponsor and support from Marshall. The FIRST -- "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" -- Robotics Competition is a worldwide program for students in grades 9-12 that inspires the next generation of explorers to pursue careers in the "STEM" fields of science, technology, engineering and math.   Spacewalkers Successfully Connect Adapter for Commercial Crew Vehicles Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA performed a successful spacewalk this week. The reconnected cables and electrical connections on the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 that will provide the pressurized interface between the station and the second of two international docking adapters for U.S. commercial crew spacecraft in the future.   NASA Awards Facilities Engineering Design, Inspection Services Contract NASA has awarded an architect and engineering services contract to Accura Rosser 8(a) JV of Atlanta to perform engineering design and inspection services at Marshall. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will begin April 1 and includes a one-year base period, followed by four one-year options for a maximum five-year performance period. 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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