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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of February 12 - February 16, 2018
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NASA Acting Administrator Delivers "State of NASA" Address at Marshall
This week, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot delivered the annual "State of NASA" from the Marshall Space Flight Center. Lightfoot discussed what the President’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request means for America's space agency. In addition to Lightfoot's address, Marshall hosted a NASA Social event giving a behind-the-scenes tour of working taking place at the center.
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(Video 1:00) Marshall's Amy Buck Explains Instulating NASA's New Deep-space Rocket
In the debut episode of NASA's Rocket Science in 60 Seconds, Marshall engineer Amy Buck explains how she is helping protect NASA's Space Launch System rocket as it experiences extreme hot and cold conditions during launch. Buck leads a team of engineers at Marshall who are applying the thermal protection system to the rocket's launch vehicle stage adapter.
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Marshall Flight Controllers and Astronauts Set New Record for Sciene in Orbit
Last week, a week without major operations or maintenance enabled the crew aboard the International Space Station to achieve a record of more than 100 hours of research. Flight controllers Marshall's Payload Operations Integration Center work 24/7, 365 with astronauts aboard the station to manage science.
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NASA Seeks the Gold in Winter Olympics Snow
The International Collaborative Experiments for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, or ICE-POP, is an international collaboration incluing NASA that is using this year's winter Olympic games to study how well researchers can measure snow from the ground and space and provide better data for snowstorm predictions.
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New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image -- and made history. The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles from Earth -- making it, for a time, the farthest image ever made from Earth.
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