In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

	July 27, 2018  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of July 23 - 27   NASA Marshall Awards 43 New Small Innovation and Technology Research Proposals NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research program and 44 proposals for the Small Business Technology Transfer program, totaling $43.5 million in awards. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will manage 43 of the awards, totaling $5.375 million.   NASA Interns Develop and Release Navigation Software Two students interning at Marshall had the incredible opportunity to not only leave their mark on one of NASA’s most unique testing facilities, but also release their own open source software. The students’ invention simulates the navigation system that will direct NASA’s Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System by tracking its location based on the position of the satellite relative to the stars. The code for AprilNAV is available to the public at no cost on software.nasa.gov and code.nasa.gov.   Top Five Teams Selected for NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition NASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, have selected the top five teams to share a $100,000 prize in the latest stage of the agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition. The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge aims to further the progression of sustainable shelters that will someday occupy the Moon, Mars or beyond by pushing citizen inventors to develop new technologies capable of additively manufacturing a habitat using indigenous resources with, or without, recyclable materials.   RS-25 Engine Installed On Stennis Space Center Stand For New Test Series The latest developmental RS-25 engine was installed on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Mississippi, on July 23 in preparation for hotfire testing to support NASA’s Space Launch System Program. Stennis is testing all RS-25 engines that will help power the SLS rocket, which is being built for missions beyond low-Earth orbit, carrying crew and cargo to the Moon and beyond.  For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall. For past issues of the ICYMI newsletter, click here.
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