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

	August 18, 2017  In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of August 14 - 18, 2017   NASA Marshall Experts to Share Total Solar Eclipse In-person, on Television Scientists, researchers and experts from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will mobilize Aug. 21 to experience the total solar eclipse and share it with others. They will join other from across the agency for Eclipse Across America: Through the Eyes of NASA, participating in events at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the point of greatest eclipse, Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and many more.    SHIIVER Tank Arrives at NASA’s Marshall Center for Spray-On Foam Insulation NASA is studying a concept to maintain very cold fuel temperatures for future deep-space missions. Concepts such as advanced insulation blankets, foam insulation and vapor-based cooling will be evaluated with the Structural Heat Intercept Insulation Vibration Evaluation Rig, or SHIIVER, a concept tank that arrived last week at Marshall for the application of its first round of insulation.   NASA Cargo Delivered to Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission Experiments seeking a better understanding of Parkinson’s disease and the origin of cosmic rays were delivered to the International Space Station this week aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Carrying more than 6,400 pounds of research equipment, cargo and supplies, the spacecraft lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the company’s 12th commercial resupply mission.   Marshall Hosts Mentor-Protégé Agreement Signing Between CH2M Inc. and Alcyon Inc. Executives of technology firms CH2M Inc. of Denver, and Alcyon Inc. of Huntsville, signed a NASA Mentor-Protégé agreement this week at Marshall. The first agreement with a certified small disadvantaged business, it is 16th Mentor-Protégé agreement between a Marshall prime contractor and a protégé,    A Starburst with the Prospect of Gravitational Waves More than a hundred years after the discovery of a glowing cloud, or nebula, that turned out to be a small galaxy, astronomers are studying it with the most powerful telescopes of the 21st century. New observations of the galaxy about 2.2 million light years from Earth with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal many pairs of stars that may one day become sources of gravitational waves. 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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