In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: Get To Know its 7 Instruments
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, powered by the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, blasted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 30. Learn about the seven critical instruments that Perseverance is carrying to the Red Planet.
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10 Things to Know for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Return
History was made May 30 when NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. Now, Behnken and Hurley are ready to return home in the SpaceX Endeavour spacecraft for a splashdown off the coast of Florida, closing out a mission designed to test SpaceX’s human spaceflight system, including launch, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations.
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Marshall’s Jeramie Broadway Talks In-space Manufacturing on Pass the Torque Podcast
In-space manufacturing offers flexibility and resilience, and can help enable a sustained human presence in space. In this week’s episode of Pass the Torque, learn about this exciting capability from Jeramie Broadway, a formulation manager in the Center Partnerships and Formulation Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Watch the 2020 Student Launch Awards Ceremony
After eight months of late nights writing reports, early morning presentations to NASA rocketry experts, and weekends spent building, testing, flying, and perfecting their machines, the mission is complete for the 54 teams of the 2020 NASA Student Launch competition. The category and overall winners were announced virtually July 23. Marshall’s Office of STEM Engagement manages Student Launch.
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Hubble Sees Summertime on Saturn
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently took a snapshot of Saturn when it was 839 million miles from Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's northern hemisphere. Marshall was responsible for Hubble’s overall design, development, and construction.
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