In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: What Has NASA Learned from Building the First SLS Rocket Core Stage?
Boeing production superintendent Eric Sturgeon takes you inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the agency’s Space Launch System rocket core stages are manufactured. He explains how NASA and Boeing evaluate each rocket’s construction and what they’ve learned from building the first rocket stage.
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New Research Launching to Station Aboard Northrop Grumman’s 13th Resupply Mission
Investigations studying tissue culturing, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages science operations for the station.
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Chandra Contributes to New 3D Visualizations
Astronomers want more "hands on" ways to visualize objects in space. A new set of computer simulations represents an exciting step in that direction. Each is a three-dimensional visualization of an astronomical object based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory – managed by Marshall -- and other X-ray observatories.
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How is Biotechnology Preparing us to Live on the Moon, Mars?
The adventures awaiting astronauts on future long-duration missions have technologists researching sustainable ways to live away from Earth. NASA is using what it knows from almost 20 years of a continuous human presence on the International Space Station and looking at new technologies to prepare for missions to the Moon and Mars.
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Station Crew Works Human Research, CubeSats and Gears Up for Spaceship Departures
The Expedition 61 crew’s schedule was packed Wednesday as they researched space biology and packed a pair of spaceships for departure. The crew also deployed an experimental satellite outside the International Space Station.
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