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

	June 16, 2017  In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of June 12 - 16, 2017   NASA in the Park Returns to Downtown Huntsville June 17 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Downtown Huntsville Inc. will return to Big Spring Park East June 17, for NASA in the Park -- the annual celebration of NASA and the city of Huntsville. The event, featuring city and Marshall leadership and a veteran NASA astronaut, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.   New Window Improves the View of Science on Orbiting Laboratory One of the busiest work stations on the International Space Station -- the Microgravity Science Glovebox -- got a major upgrade recently, and it already has saved dozens of hours on a variety of experiments. The sealed, enclosed work area is designed to contain payloads and allow crew members to use glove ports to work with the experiments.   Testing the SLS Engine Section for the World's Most Powerful Rocket A structural test version of the engine section for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, recently arrived at Marshall where engineers are preparing for a series of tests using hydraulic cylinders to push, pull, twist and bend the engine section with millions of pounds of force. This infographic explains how the testing will validate that the hardware can handle the pressures of launch and flight.   New Horizons Team Digs into New Data on Next Flyby Target At least 54 observing teams with dozens of telescopes dispatched across two continents, recently, to catch a rare, two-second glimpse of a small, distant Kuiper Belt object passing in front of a star. And it wasn’t just any KBO -- it was the next flyby target of NASA’s New Horizons mission.   Orion Kicks Off Summer with Series of Safety Tests Engineers working on NASA’s Orion spacecraft kicked off summer with a series of important tests for some of the spacecraft’s critical safety systems. In the Utah desert, the skies over Arizona and the water at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the team is making sure Orion is safe from launch to splashdown. 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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