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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of April 30 - May 4, 2018
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The Great Escape: SLS Provides Power for Missions to the Moon
It takes a powerful rocket to escape Earth’s gravity and send a spacecraft to the Moon. That's why NASA is developing the most powerful rocket ever built, the Space Launch System. The only rocket capable of sending crew and large cargo to deep space in a single launch, SLS will enable a new era of space exploration.
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NASA’s First Mission to Study the Interior of Mars Awaits May 5 Launch
All systems are go for NASA’s next launch to the Red Planet. Scheduled to launch May 5, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, InSight -- Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- will study the deep interior of Mars. The two-hour launch window will open at 6:05 a.m. CDT.
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'NASA Day in Baton Rouge' Recognizes Louisiana's Role in Space Exploration
Officials from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, and NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week to recognize the state's role in space exploration. Historically a big contributor to NASA missions, Louisiana has an active role in NASA's Space Launch System, Orion spacecraft and many other programs.
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Stellar Family Portrait in X-rays
By studying young star clusters, astronomers hope to learn more about how stars -- including our Sun -- are born. NGC 6231, located about 5,200 light years from Earth, is an ideal testbed for studying a stellar cluster at a critical stage of its evolution. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been used to identify the young Sun-like stars in NGC 6231, which have, until recently, been hiding in plain sight.
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