In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Attaches First of 4 RS-25 Engines to Artemis I Rocket Stage
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Integration of the RS-25 engines to the recently completed core stage structure is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its partners Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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I Am Building SLS: Deanna Whitehead
Whitehead is the design team lead for the SLS flight software team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She writes code for the SLS rocket and is already working with her team to write software to fly the second and third Artemis lunar missions.
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The Clumpy and Lumpy Death of a Star
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured unparalleled X-ray images of many supernova remnants, including Tycho, which glows brightly in X-ray light because shock generated by the stellar explosion heat the stellar debris up to millions of degrees. The Chandra program is managed by Marshall.
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NASA, Industry Partner for Space-based Study of Potential Alzheimer’s Key
An innovative experiment underway on the International Space Station could help researchers make new progress in the fight against aggressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The Ring-Sheared Drop experiment, developed and led by Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, will be housed in the station’s Microgravity Science Glovebox to enable study of the formation of potentially destructive amyloid fibrils.
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Clears Critical Milestone
NASA’s Lucy mission successfully completed its Critical Design Review on Oct. 18. Lucy, set to launch in October 2021, will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, which orbit the Sun at a distance of Jupiter. Lucy is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by Marshall.
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