In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Barging In: Artemis I Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy
The final piece of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will send NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon has arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The SLS Program delivered the core stage rocket to the center’s Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf after completing a successful series of Green Run tests at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The 212-foot-tall core stage, which is the largest rocket stage NASA has ever built, completed its voyage aboard the agency’s Pegasus barge on April 27.
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Crew-1 Astronauts Advance Research Aboard Space Station
After six months aboard the International Space Station, Crew-1 returns home May 1. The four crew members contributed to hundreds of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations while aboard the orbiting laboratory. In this story, learn how the valuable scientific research helps to prepare humans for future space exploration missions while generating numerous innovations and benefits for humanity on Earth.
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NASA Continues RS-25 Engine Testing for Future Artemis Missions
NASA conducted a long-duration RS-25 single-engine test April 28, continuing its seven-part test series to support development and production of engines for future missions of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket. Operators fired the engine for almost 11 minutes on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, providing valuable data to Aerojet Rocketdyne, lead contractor for the SLS engines, as it begins production of new engines for use after the first four SLS flights.
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Hubble Captures Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant "celebrity star," one of the brightest stars seen in the Milky Way galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust. The price for the monster star's opulence is "living on the edge." Explore the star, called AG Carinae, which is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
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Marshall Intern to Students: Explore, Discover, Apply!
Get to know Marvin Q. Jones Jr., a doctoral student majoring in astrophysics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is interning at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and his project is on the pulsed fission fusion propulsion system.
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