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

	April 19, 2019  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Week of April 15-19, 2019   Chandra Discovers A New Signal for a Neutron Star Collision A bright burst of X-rays has been discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth. This event likely signaled the merger of two neutron stars and could give astronomers fresh insight into how neutron stars – dense stellar objects packed mainly with neutrons – are built.   CLASP-2: Extreme Rocket Science in the Desert The NASA Chromospheric Layer Spectropolarimeter-2, or CLASP-2, sounding rocket mission was successfully conducted April 11 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Launched aboard a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at 12:51 p.m. EDT, the CLASP-2 payload flew to an altitude 170 miles before descending by parachute.   NASA Announces Winners of 25th Annual Rover Challenge NASA has announced the winners of the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 12-13 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany, won first place in the high school division with 91 points; and the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez - Team 1 won the college/university division with 101 points.   NASA Accelerates Pace of Core Stage Production with New Tool The boat-tail structure, a fairing-like cover designed to protect the bottom end of the core stage and the RS-25 engines, has been joined to one of the most complicated and intricate parts of NASA’s Space Launch System - the engine section. The engine section comprises the lowest portion of the massive core stage of the deep space rocket. 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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