In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Engineers Break SLS Test Tank on Purpose to Test Extreme Limits
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits Dec. 5 to really understand its breaking point. The test version of the Space Launch System rocket’s liquid hydrogen tank withstood more than 260% of expected flight loads over five hours before engineers detected a buckling point, which then ruptured.
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NASA, Public Mark Assembly of SLS Stage with Artemis Day
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine showed off the Space Launch System liquid-fueled rocket stage during Artemis Day on Dec. 9 at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Media and social media influencers saw not only the integrated core stage but also large structures that will be connected to form the core stage for Artemis II, the first mission to send astronauts to lunar orbit, as well as components for Artemis III, the mission that will put humans back on the lunar surface.
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Wide Range of Research Keeping Space Station Crew Busy
The International Space Station is a hive of science activity as the Expedition 61 crew and mission controllers initiate a variety of space research – including gripping and manipulating objects in space. Marshall manages science operations for the station.
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Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: How Does the SLS Rocket’s Core Stage Come Together?
Amanda Gertjejansen is the senior production manager with Boeing for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket at Michoud. In this episode, join Gertjejansen inside the Michoud factory for a close-up look at the fully assembled core stage that will help power NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon.
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What is a Cirrus Arc?
Most skygazers have heard of the jet stream, but jet streaks -- like the one that recently produced a cirrus arc stretching across the United States’ Midwest -- are less familiar. NASA’s SPoRT project at Marshall works with NASA Earth – which monitors the planet’s vital signs from land, air and space -- to help provide meteorological reasoning to explain interesting features seen from space.
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