In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Marshall Team on Earth Enables Science Success in Orbit
Recently a group of seven astronauts and cosmonauts completed the largest long-duration crew mission in the history of the International Space Station, and the astronauts who arrived on the SpaceX Crew-1 mission performed a record amount of experiments along the journey. The Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, helped the crew complete scientific discoveries at an increased pace.
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NASA Barge Crew Describes What It’s Like to Transport Moon Rocket
Meet the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge and learn how they transported the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. The stage for NASA’s Moon rocket arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Artemis I launch preparations on April 27 following a 900-mile journey from NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
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Hubble Views a Dazzling Cosmic Necklace
The interaction of two doomed stars has created a spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas – a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions. Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this planetary nebula is located 15,000 light-years away from Earth. Advanced processing techniques created an improved and fresh view of an image previously captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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60 Years Ago: Alan Shepard Becomes First American in Space
In 1961, the United States and the Soviet Union found themselves in a race to put the first human being into space. The Soviets won the race in April 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin completed a single orbit around the Earth. On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight. Three weeks later, based on the success of Shepard’s brief flight, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to achieving a lunar landing before the end of the decade.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venus’ Atmosphere
During a brief swing by Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet’s upper atmosphere. This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years – and it looks quite different from Venus past.
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