In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Removes Rocket Core Stage for Artemis Moon Mission from Stennis Test Stand
Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, worked April 19-20 to remove the first flight core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket from the B-2 Test Stand in preparation for its transport to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn how crews lifted and lowered the 212-foot-tall stage, which will be loaded on NASA’s Pegasus barge for transport to Kennedy, where it will be prepared for launch of the Artemis I mission.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
On April 19, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. Altimeter data indicate that Ingenuity climbed to its prescribed maximum altitude of 10 feet and maintained a stable hover for 30 seconds.
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NASA Team Preparing Hardware for Future Moon Rockets
Technicians and engineers continue to make progress manufacturing core stages that will help power NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for its second and third flights. NASA and Boeing, the lead contractor for the core stage, are in the process of conducting one of the biggest Artemis II milestones: assembling the top half of the core stage.
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Bubbles with Titanium Trigger Titanic Explosions
Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. The discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode. Discover more about this work, which is based on Chandra observations of the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A, located about 11,000 light-years from Earth.
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NASA Announces Winners of 2021 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
High school and college students from around the U.S. and world have spent the last eight months designing, building, and testing their creations for NASA’s 27th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The winners were announced during a virtual awards ceremony April 16. The challenge teams to design, engineer, and test a human-powered rover on a course that simulates the terrain found on rocky bodies in the solar system.
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