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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of November 13 - 17, 2017
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NASA Completes Review of First SLS, Orion Deep-space Exploration Mission
Last week, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot announced that after review, the integrated first flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, Exploration Mission-1, could move to June 2020, while program management works to protect the earlier December 2019 date. EM-1 will lay the foundation for the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, as well as a regular cadence of missions thereafter near the Moon and beyond.
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NASA Opens $2 Million Third Phase of 3D-Printed Habitat Competition
Future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter explorers, and NASA won’t be able to carry all of the materials from Earth. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a Centennial Challenges competition, seeks ways to create or develop the technologies needed to create such habitats on-site, and challenges citizen inventors to lead the way. Team registration for Phase 3 of the competition is now officially open.
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Marshall Experts to Participate in Discussion on Astronomy's Expanding 'Senses'
"Multi-messenger Astronomy: A New Era in Space Science," a free science discussion, will give the public and media the opportunity to hear from some of the first scientists to detect light and gravitational waves -- ripples in space-time -- caused by colliding neutron stars. The event will be hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville at 3:30 p.m. CST on Nov. 20.
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New Cargo and Research Arrives at International Space Station
Orbital ATK’s eighth contracted cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Nov. 12 and arrived at the orbiting laboratory Nov. 14, delivering 7,400 pounds of crew supplies, science experiments, spacewalk gear, station hardware and computer parts. Some of the new research payloads will examine the impacts of space on microbiology and botany.
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Help Nickname New Horizons’ Next Flyby Target
NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles past Pluto. On New Year’s Day 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a small, frozen world in the Kuiper Belt, at the outer edge of our solar system. The target Kuiper Belt object currently goes by the official designation "(486958) 2014 MU69."
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