In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Leadership Visits Marshall to Discuss Artemis, Future Exploration
NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy visited the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville on Nov. 29 and 30 for tours and briefings on Marshall’s role in the Artemis program and other capabilities that enrich many facets of the nation’s space exploration endeavors. Find out more about their visit and read their thoughts on the work being done at Marshall.
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Experience NASA’s Journey to LCRD Launch
Have you ever witnessed one of NASA’s launches? It’s definitely a sight to see when a rocket takes to the sky, soaring beyond the atmosphere into space. If you haven’t, you’ll have another chance soon with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which will continue NASA’s exploration of laser communications to support future missions to the Moon and throughout the solar system.
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Are Water Plumes Spraying from Europa? NASA’s Europa Clipper is on the Case
In 2005, images of a brilliant watery plume erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus captivated the world. Scientists now are preparing for a mission to another ice-covered ocean world with possible plumes: Jupiter’s moon Europa. Scheduled to launch in 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will study the moon from its deep interior to its surface to determine whether it has ingredients that make it a viable home for life.
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NASA Takes Another Step Toward Full Hubble Ops
The Hubble Space Telescope team recovered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph instrument Nov. 28, moving the telescope further toward full science operations. Three of Hubble’s four active instruments are now collecting science data once again.
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NASA’s Second Pepper Harvest Sets Record on Space Station
The longest – and perhaps the spiciest – plant experiment in the history of the International Space Station, Plant Habitat-04, concluded recently, 137 days after it began. On Nov. 26, Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei harvested and with other members of the crew sampled some of the 26 chile peppers grown from four plants in the orbiting laboratory’s Advanced Plant Habitat.
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