In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Major Artemis Engine Part Arrives at Stennis For Certification Testing
The first RS-25 powerhead produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne in over a decade arrived at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Oct. 25. It will be installed to a flight certification engine built specifically for testing newly designed parts for the latest production RS-25 engine that will power SLS flights beyond Artemis IV.
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The Scientific Journey of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 on the Space Station
After more than six months aboard the International Space Station, the astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission are returning home. These crew members contributed to hundreds of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations while aboard the orbiting laboratory. Learn more about scientific milestones accomplished during the Crew-2 mission.
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Mysterious ‘Superbubble’ Hollows Out Nebula in New Hubble Image
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Road to Launch and Beyond for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical teams have begun making progress on the final checklist of preparations before liftoff later this year. In this story, get a detailed breakdown of what lies ahead for Webb:
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Final Certification Run for Orion Recovery
NASA and the U.S. Navy are preparing to head out to sea for the ninth in a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. The team will practice recovering a test version of an Orion capsule and bringing it into the well deck of a Navy ship.
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