In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Marshall, SpaceX Team Celebrates Engines of Success
SpaceX and NASA test engineers at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, spent months reviewing data from Merlin engine tests performed at the SpaceX test facility in McGregor, Texas, prior to delivery to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 launch. It’s teamwork Marshall knows well; workers there developed the most powerful engines ever built, from the Apollo and space shuttle eras through today’s mighty Space Launch System engines.
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Welding Underway on Orion for First Artemis Mission Landing Astronauts on Moon
At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians from Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have welded together three cone-shaped panels on Orion’s crew module for the Artemis III mission that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon. The crew module’s primary structure, the pressure vessel, is comprised of seven machined aluminum alloy pieces.
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NASA Remembers Its Fallen Heroes
Each January, NASA honors members of the agency’s family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance. Their bravery and dedication continue to inspire NASA, which carries the lessons they taught forward as the agency pursues its mission to the Moon and beyond.
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Tiny NASA Cameras to Watch Commercial Lander Form Craters on Moon
The Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies will show NASA researchers what happens under a spacecraft as it lands on the Moon. The miniature cameras – which were tested at Marshall ¬– could help lead to smoother lunar landings.
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Spacewalk Wraps Up With Upgrades on European Lab Module
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover concluded their spacewalk Jan. 27 after 6 hours and 56 minutes. They completed a number of tasks designed to upgrade International Space Station systems. The crew also installed a Ka-band antenna on the outside of the European Space Agency Columbus module.
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