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

	January 10, 2020  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Week of Jan. 6-10   First NASA Artemis Rocket Core Stage Loaded on Pegasus Barge The first Space Launch System rocket core stage for NASA’s Artemis program completed manufacturing work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans  and was loaded onto the agency’s Pegasus barge Jan. 8 for delivery to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. With NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard in attendance, NASA rolled out the core stage onto Pegasus in preparation for the Green Run test series, the final test campaign ahead of the agency’s first Artemis launch.   Famous Black Hole Has Jet Pushing Cosmic Speed Limit Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have seen that the famous giant black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles at speeds greater than 99% of the speed of light. Chandra is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.   Spacewalk Preps Underway Amidst Space Research The Expedition 61 crew is gearing up for the first three spacewalks of 2020 set for this month. Meanwhile, the International Space Station is bustling with an array of microgravity research activities.   NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of an Exploded Star Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined the visible, infrared and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories – which include Chandra --  to create a three-dimensional representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of an exploded star.   A Decade Review of SPoRT The Short-term Prediction Research and Transition team, based at Marshall, transitions NASA satellite data and capabilities to improve short-term weather forecasting with an emphasis on National Weather Service end users. 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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