In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Space Launch System Rocket Proceeding with Green Run Hot Fire
NASA is targeting the final test in the Space Launch System core stage Green Run series, the hot fire, for as early as Jan.17. The hot fire is the culmination of the Green Run test series, an eight-part test campaign that gradually brings the core stage of the SLS — the deep space rocket that will power the agency’s next-generation human Moon missions — to life for the first time.
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On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
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NASA’s First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids Integrates its Second Scientific Instrument
NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, leftover building blocks of the solar system’s outer planets orbiting the Sun at the distance of Jupiter.
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What NASA Learned in 2020 from Space Station Science
Dozens of experiments are going on at any given time aboard the International Space Station. Research conducted in 2020 is advancing understanding in areas of study from Parkinson’s disease to combustion. Space station research results published this year came from experiments performed and data collected during the past 20 years of continuous human habitation aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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NASA Perseveres Through Pandemic, Looks Ahead in 2021
With 2020 behind NASA, the agency is gearing up for a busy year in 2021, looking forward to more exploration firsts. NASA is working toward sending the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024 and and will establish sustainable lunar exploration by the end of the decade as part of the Artemis program, while getting ready for human exploration of Mars.
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