In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Galaxy Gathering Brings Warmth
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory – managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama – and other space- and ground-based observatories and telescopes, a team of astronomers has found that two galaxy groups are smashing into each other at about 4 million miles per hour. X-ray data from Chandra shows hot gas with temperatures upward of about 20 million degrees Celsius.
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Solving the Challenges of Long-Duration Spaceflight with 3D Printing
The In-Space Manufacturing project at Marshall and its commercial partners are using the International Space Station to test various technologies to provide 3D printing capabilities that could produce, essentially on demand, items needed for deep space voyages.
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X Marks the Spot: NASA Selects Site for Asteroid Sample Collection
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission -- OSIRIS-REx -- has officially selected a sample collection site. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by Marshall.
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NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred Nov. 3 during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program.
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Aft Exit Cones for NASA’s Space Launch System Arrive for Artemis I
The two Northrop Grumman-manufactured aft exit cones for the Space Launch System’s solid rocket boosters recently arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The left aft exit cone arrived Nov. 4 and the right aft exit cone arrived Dec. 9. Both were shipped by truck from Promontory, Utah. The exit cones will be checked out and prepared for the Artemis I uncrewed test flight.
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