In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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A Cosmic Amethyst in a Dying Star
On Earth, amethysts can form when gas bubbles in lava cool under the right conditions. In space, a dying star with a mass similar to the Sun is capable of producing a structure on par with the appeal of these beautiful gems.
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Marshall Team Enables Increased Science Return from Space Station Astronauts
For the past 20 years, between two and six humans regularly inhabit and work aboard the International Space Station. The Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, schedules, assists with, and coordinates all of the experiments on the U.S. Orbital Segment.
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Loss of Father Leads Successful Marshall Inventor Jonathan Lee to Join Fight Against COVID-19
Jonathan Lee’s work with cutting-edge alloys has made him one of the most successful inventors in the history of Marshall and the agency, but some of his latest projects are driven by matters of the heart, not industry.
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Hatches Open, Crew Dragon Astronauts Join Expedition 64
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi arrived at the International Space Station during the early morning hours Nov. 17. They join the Expedition 64 crew of Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, both of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA.
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Dig In: NASA Challenge Seeks Innovations to Excavate Moon Resources
From garage inventors to university students and entrepreneurs, NASA is looking for ideas on how to excavate the Moon’s icy regolith, or dirt, and deliver it to a hypothetical processing plant at the lunar South Pole. NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge is designed to develop new technologies that could support a sustained human presence on the Moon by the end of the decade.
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