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

	October 19, 2018  In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Week of Sept. 15 – 19, 2018   NASA to Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night Oct. 20 Join us Saturday, Oct. 20, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. CDT for the 8th annual International Observe the Moon Night celebration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Davidson Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The event is free and open to the public and will include lunar and solar system exploration exhibits and a variety of hands-on activities for children and adults.   (VIDEO 0:59) Faces of Technology: Meet Mallory Johnston Meet Mallory Johnston, deputy manager for Additive Construction with Mobile Emplacement project at Marshall. Johnston prints 3D habitats out of concrete using simulants of resources available on Mars or the Moon, a technology that could be used to advance human spaceflight but also to help people in disaster areas here on Earth.   (VIDEO 5:32) Facebook Live with Nick Hague On Thursday, Oct. 11, Astronaut Nick Hague's planned launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft ended minutes later in a safe landing on Earth, after an issue with the rocket's booster. Hague answered questions about his emergency landing during an Oct. 16 Facebook Live event.   Space Launch System Intertank Completes Functional Testing The intertank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1 as part of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its avionics functional testing at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The avionics units on the core stage will work with the rocket's flight software to perform various functions during the first eight minutes of flight.   All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered Astronomers excitedly reported the first detection of electromagnetic waves, or light, from a gravitational wave source about a year ago. Now, researchers are announcing the existence of a cosmic relative to that historic event. The discovery of the cosmic look-alike was made using data from telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, managed by Marshall. 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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