In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Backbone of NASA’s Moon Rocket Joins Boosters for Artemis I Mission
The core stage of the Space Launch System rocket for NASA’s Artemis I mission has been placed on the mobile launcher in between the twin solid rocket boosters inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Serving as the backbone of the rocket, the core stage supports the weight of the payload, upper stage, and crew vehicle, as well as carrying the thrust of its four engines and two five-segment solid rocket boosters.
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Astronauts Install 1st of 2 New Solar Array for Space Station
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk June 16 after 7 hours and 15 minutes. In the seventh spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts installed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array into its mounting bracket on the far end of the left, or port, side of the station’s backbone truss structure.
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NASA, SpaceX Update Crew Launch, Return Dates
NASA and SpaceX have adjusted target launch and return dates for upcoming crew missions to and from the International Space Station based on visiting vehicle traffic. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working with industry through a public-private partnership to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the space station, which will allow for additional research time and will increase the opportunity for discovery aboard humanity’s testbed for exploration.
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The Give and Take of Mega-Flares From Stars
The long relationships between stars and the planets around them – including the Sun and the Earth – may be even more complex than previously thought. This is one conclusion of a new study involving thousands of stars using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A team of researchers has helped outline the link between very powerful flares, or outbursts, from youthful stars, and the impact they could have on planets in orbit.
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Bracket Contest to Help NASA Name ‘Moonikin’ Flying on Artemis I Mission Around Moon
Choose your player! NASA is holding a naming contest for the manikin that will fly on an upcoming mission around the Moon. The Moonikin will fly aboard the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis I mission – an unscrewed test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion – to help gather data before missions with astronauts.
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