MEDIA ADVISORY
In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of April 23 - April 27, 2018
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Vice President Pence Swears in New NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine officially took office as the 13th administrator of NASA this week after he was given the oath of office by Vice President Mike Pence. Following the ceremony, Pence and Bridenstine held a meeting with senior leadership at NASA headquarters and centers, including the Marshall Space Flight Center, via video teleconference.
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Back to (Nucleic) Bases - Studying DNA aboard the International Space Station
What do astronauts, microbes, and plants all have in common? Each relies on deoxyribonucleic acid -- essentially a computer code for living things -- to grow and thrive. Studying DNA in space could lead to a better understanding of microgravity’s impact on living organisms and could also offer ways to identify unknown microbes in spacecraft, humans and the deep space locations we seek to visit.
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(Video 0:38) Built to Explore: NASA's Deep-Space Rocket, the Space Launch System
NASA's Space Launch System, the world's most powerful rocket, will enable a new era of exploration. With NASA's Orion spacecraft, SLS will launch astronauts on missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Exploration Mission-1, the first integrated flight of SLS and an uncrewed Orion, will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will provide the foundation for human deep-space exploration and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence beyond low-Earth orbit.
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Celebrating 28 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
For the last 28 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary stellar tapestry of birth and destruction. To celebrate the Earth-orbiting observatory, NASA released an new image of the Lagoon Nebula a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away.
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