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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 27 - December 1, 2017
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Technicians Practice Lifting and Moving the SLS Engine Pathfinder
Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans are practicing operations with an RS-25 pathfinder engine to gain "hands-on" training for transporting and handling flight engines for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. The pathfinder engine is the same size and shape as the RS-25 flight engines that will power the SLS rocket's core stage as it launches NASA's Orion spacecraft on missions into deep space.
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Space Station Prepares for Three December Launches
This week, crew members aboard the the International Space Station prepared the orbiting laboratory for pair of cargo missions and a crew swap scheduled for December. The station slightly raised its orbit enabling the crew swap, which is set to begin when Expedition 52-53 crew members return to Earth. They will be replaced by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, Russian astronaut Anton Shkaplerov and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai.
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Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy
It seems like even black holes can’t resist the temptation to insert themselves unannounced into photographs. A cosmic photobomb found as a background object in images of the nearby Andromeda galaxy has revealed what could be the most tightly coupled pair of supermassive black holes ever seen. Astronomers made this remarkable discovery using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from ground-based telescopes.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Final Cryogenic Testing
The vault-like, 40-foot diameter, 40-ton door of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was unsealed recently, signaling the end of about 100 days of cryogenic testing for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a significant milestone in the telescope’s journey to the launch pad.
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