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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Selects Flying Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life
NASA has announced that its next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing the search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. Dragonfly was selected as part of the agency’s New Frontiers program, which is managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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NASA Technology, Missions Launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
NASA technology demonstrations and science missions launched into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket at 2:30 a.m. EDT, June 25 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The payloads were part of the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 launch. The technology demonstrations could help the agency get astronauts to Mars, while the science missions will look at the space environment around Earth and how it affects us. Two of the technologies -- the Green Propellant Infusion Mission and the Deep Space Atomic Clock -- are part of NASA’s Technology Demonstration Missions program managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Exploring the Extreme: 20 Years of Chandra
Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray astronomy. Chandra is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies and matter around black holes. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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Teams Build 3D-Printed Habitats for Moon and Mars
NASA challenged teams to 3D print habitats that could one day support astronauts on the Moon or Mars. Then they crushed them ... for science, of course. See what happened when teams went head-to-head at the live competition. The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is managed through a partnership with NASA’s Centennial Challenges program and Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Centennial Challenges is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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NASA Astronaut Anne McClain, Crewmates Return from Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two of her Expedition 59 crewmates returned to Earth from the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan on June 24 at 10:47 p.m. EDT (8:47 a.m., June 25, local time) after months of science and four spacewalks aboard the microgravity laboratory. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages science operations for the space station.
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