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

	August 17, 2018  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of Aug. 13 – 17, 2018   NASA Administrator Views SLS Progress During First Visit to Marshall Completing a three-day tour spanning three states, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made his first visit to the Rocket City as the agency’s administrator on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Bridenstine spent the day at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he was briefed on space station science operations, technology development and Space Launch System (SLS) progress.   NASA Launches Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun NASA's Parker Solar Probe undertook a landmark science mission when it launched Aug. 12 to begin its journey to penetrate the outer atmosphere of the Sun, where it will revolutionize our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.   (VIDEO 1:09) NASA’s NICER Does the Space Station Twist Watch as NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station in a precisely choreographed dance-like fashion in this time-lapse video, obtained June 8.   (VIDEO: 1:00) Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: A Ride on NASA's Barge Pegasus Barge captains for NASA’s barge Pegasus, Alan Murphy and Terry Fitzgerald, give you an inside look at the massive boat that transports SLS hardware between NASA centers! The agency's barge Pegasus has been expanded to transport massive SLS hardware between centers for testing and launches.   Finding the Happy Medium of Black Holes Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, scientists have collected the largest sample of intermediate-mass black holes ever found. Finding these elusive intermediate-mass black holes could help astronomers better understand what "seeds" the largest black holes in the early Universe and may be able to explain how the very biggest black holes, the supermassive ones, were able to form so quickly after the Big Bang. 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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