In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Mammoth Artemis I Rocket Boosters Stacked on Mobile Launcher
Stacking is complete for the twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Artemis I mission. Over several weeks, workers used one of five massive cranes to place 10 booster segments and nose assemblies on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Strong Team, Strong Science: Space Station Hardware Developers, Payload Support Teams Celebrate Two Decades of Success, Prepare for Third
International Space Station facility engineers and payload operations teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have spent two decades developing and testing science hardware and providing real-time support for experiments in orbit. The station is a marvel of teamwork, home to round-the-clock cutting edge science – some 200 experiments underway in orbit at any given moment, overseen by the astronaut crew and by science teams on the ground.
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Gigantic Jet Spied from Black Hole in Early Universe
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a supermassive black hole in the early universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. If confirmed, it would be the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays – about 12.7 billion light-years from Earth.
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Space Laboratory Serves as Testbed for Moon, Mars
NASA is preparing for human missions to Mars with a steppingstone approach to expanding its presence farther into the solar system. The agency will take the knowledge gained on Earth, build on research and experience aboard the International Space Station, and learn to live and work on the Moon under the Artemis program in preparation for missions to the Red Planet.
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Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star's Dimming
Last year, astronomers were puzzled when Betelgeuse, the bright red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, dramatically faded, but then recovered. Now, astronomers have turned their sights toward a monster star in the adjoining constellation Canis Major, the Great Dog. New findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest the same processes that occurred on Betelgeuse are happening in Canis Major, but on a much grander scale.
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