In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Have the Coolest Camera in Space
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest space observatory in history and it has an equally gargantuan task: to collect infrared light from the distant corners of the cosmos. Many cosmic objects emit infrared light, but so do most other warm objects, like electronics. That means Webb’s four infrared instruments can detect their own infrared glow. To reduce those emissions, the instruments have to be really cold – about minus 388 degrees Fahrenheit.
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NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The first passage through the corona – and the promise of more flybys to come – will continue to provide data on phenomena that are impossible to study from afar.
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NASA Completes Upper Part of Artemis II Core Stage
NASA has completed assembly of the upper, or forward, part of the core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send the Artemis II crew on their lunar mission. Boeing, the lead core stage contractor, completed joining the forward part of the rocket, and then lifted it out of the assembly structure at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
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NASA’s SLS Engineering Support Center Prepares for Artemis I
As teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue Artemis I launch day preparations, crews at the Space Launch System’s (SLS) Engineering Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are joining simulations to practice their role in the exploration of the Moon and beyond. Learn how the SLS Engineering Support Center will provide support from the ground during Artemis launches before and during SLS’s first flight on Artemis.
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Father’s Foundry Job Inspires Dr. Sharon Cobb to Pursue NASA Career Path
Career inspiration can come from many places. For Space Launch System (SLS) Program Associate Manager Dr. Sharon Cobb, it was her father’s work at a foundry in Birmingham, Alabama. During a family employee event, Cobb saw molten steel being poured into molds to form large ingots, large metal blocks that would later be made into usable structures, and she was hooked.
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