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

	May 19, 2017  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of May 15 - May 19, 2017   Critical SLS Test Hardware Arrives at Marshall After an 18-day journey by barge from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, structural test hardware for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center this week. The engine section structural test article is the first major SLS core stage test hardware manufactured at Michoud to be sent to Marshall for testing.   (Video 1:40) Fighting Cancer Through Microgravity Research Conducting cancer research in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station offers unique insight into the genetic and cellular processes that can’t be duplicated on Earth. Check out this video discussing how cell growth in space more closely resemble what happens in the body.   Cassini Completes the Fourth Ring Dive of the Spacecraft's Grand Finale NASA's Cassini spacecraft continued its daring "Grand Finale" this week with its fourth dive through the narrow gap between the Saturn and planet's rings. Cassini has spent 13 years in orbit around Saturn collecting invaluable data about the gas giant and its moons, following a seven-year journey from Earth.   Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface. A new movie shows these opposition images, with contrast enhanced to highlight brightness differences. The bright spots of Occator stand out particularly well on an otherwise relatively bland surface. 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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