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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 20 - November 24, 2017
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Marshall Experts Answer Questions About Revolutionary Gravitational Waves Discovery
Experts from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center -- some of the first scientists to detect light and gravitational waves caused by colliding neutron stars -- joined followers of Facebook this week for a special question and answer session. They shared their stories behind the violent stellar smashup. Check out Marshall's Facebook account for a full rundown of the event.
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New Challenges Await Competitors in NASA’s 25th Annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Six minutes of air, 14 obstacles and five mission tasks lay ahead of the intrepid explorers. The mission is not for the faint-hearted, nor will it be taking place on another world or with actual oxygen limitations. Instead, it is the newly designed NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge competition held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in April 2018.
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Marshall's Penny Pettigrew Reflects on Choctaw Heritage, Future of Space Exploration
As a NASA payload communications manager, Penny Pettigrew spends most days in Marshall's Payload Operations Integration Center working with the International Space Station. But whenever she can, Pettigrew visits classrooms across the country, sharing her story with young people -- including those of Native American heritage, like herself.
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NASA Selects Instrument for Future International Mission to Martian Moons
NASA's Marshall-managed Discovery Program has selected a science instrument for an upcoming Japan-led sample return mission to the moons of Mars planned for launch in 2024. The instrument, a sophisticated neutron and gamma-ray spectrograph, will help scientists resolve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Red Planet -- when and how the small moons formed.
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NASA Launches NOAA Weather Satellite to Improve Forecasts
Last week, NASA successfully launched the first in a series of four highly advanced polar-orbiting satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 is equipped with next-generation technology and designed to improve the accuracy of U.S. weather forecasts out to seven days.
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