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NASA's SLS Core Stage Green Run Tests Critical Systems For Artemis I
NASA is resuming work on a series of tests to bring the Space Launch System rocket core stage to life for the first time, allowing engineers to evaluate the new complex stage that will launch the Artemis I lunar mission. The Green Run test series, conducted at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, is a collaborative effort between the SLS program, the Stennis test team, core stage manufacturer Boeing and engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Landing on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited landing on asteroid Bennu’s surface. The OSIRIS-REx mission has targeted Oct. 20 for its first sample collection attempt. In April, the spacecraft moved to within 213 feet of the asteroid’s surface during its first sample collection rehearsal. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Last of NASA’s Vital, Versatile Science EXPRESS Racks Heads to Space Station
NASA’s final EXPRESS Racks launched from Japan on Wednesday en route to the International Space Station. These permanent fixtures, which were developed at Marshall, support a variety of research experiments -- providing power, protective storage, cooling and heating, command and data communications and easy transport for up to 10 small payloads each.
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Robert Polsgrove: Commercial Crew to Human Landers
As NASA prepares to land astronauts on the Moon for the first time in the 21st century, engineer Robert Polsgrove is helping commercial companies take the next giant leap to make that possible. As Human Landing System technical manager at Marshall, Polsgrove will help one of the companies recently selected by NASA to design what may be the first commercially built spacecraft to land humans on the Moon for NASA’s Artemis program.
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University Team to Test Technology in Space via NASA Competition
After winning NASA’s Cube Quest Centennial Challenge ground competition in 2017, team Cislunar Explorers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was one of three teams awarded the opportunity to launch their CubeSat on Artemis I, NASA’s first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The team will test its water electrolysis propulsion technology in space -- something that could revolutionize exploration of the solar system. Marshall manages the Centennial Challenges program.
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NASA at Home: How Does the SLS Rocket Fly?
NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket will launch NASA’s Artemis missions and its astronauts to the Moon. But how does a rocket fly? In this NASA at Home video, Tracie Prater, an aerospace engineer at Marshall, explains the basic components that help a rocket launch and fly beyond Earth’s orbit to deep space destinations like the Moon and Mars.
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