In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
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Competition Open: NASA Student Launch Teams Challenged to ‘Call Their Shot’
NASA’s Student Launch program released the 2018-2019 competition handbook Aug. 22, detailing the rules and challenges for prospective middle school, high school and college teams. Gone this year is the 1-mile altitude target for determining the winner of the altitude award. Instead, teams will predict their rocket’s altitude before launch, and the team that comes closest to their predicted altitude will win the award.
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NASA, Marshall Center Recognizes Team Members at Annual Honor Awards
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recognized more than 300 Marshall employees, contractors and teams who supported a variety of programs, projects and activities for Marshall and NASA in 2017-18. Dr. Eugene Tu, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, delivered the keynote address. "We're here today to recognize our agency's most important asset, our people," said Tu.
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Successful Test Proves Important Step Toward Safeguarding Astronauts
NASA just successfully tested the approach to collect and retrieve valuable data in support of an upcoming test of the abort system for the agency’s Orion spacecraft. Engineers developed ejectable data recorders that will collect data for the abort test to evaluate Orion’s ability to get astronauts safely away from the rocket if there is a problem during their climb to space.
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How Space Know-How Is Making Ambulances Safer
When paramedics come racing, the last thing anybody is worrying about is where the ambulance was earlier that morning. But traces of those earlier calls could linger — and spread disease. An innovative new product, designed with NASA’s help, aims to sterilize the rig and gear to make it safer for patients and paramedics.
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Students Experience the Power of Controlling Satellites in Space
Earth-bound electronic games can’t compete with actually controlling a squadron of miniature robotic satellites in space. Using a trio of autonomous satellites on the International Space Station, SPHERES-Zero-Robotics gives students the chance to develop software to guide robots through a virtual obstacle course aboard the space station.
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