In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Completes Test Firing of Future Artemis Booster Motor
Teams from NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program and Northrop Grumman successfully fired a ground-based version of a booster for NASA’s mega Moon rocket at Northrop Grumman’s test facility in Promontory, Utah, on July 21. Secured horizontally in a test stand, the single five-segment booster motor fired for just over two minutes and produced 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
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Stress Tests: Making a Hardy Webb
As the world marvels over the first public images from the James Webb Space Telescope, Webb Deputy Project Manager for Technical Verification Paul Geithner is able to recall another first-of-its-kind moment: when the Webb team thought for a brief – blessedly brief – moment it had actually broken part of the observatory.
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Astronauts Pursue New Research to Benefit Humans on Earth, Space
A variety of new space science is underway aboard the International Space Station following last weekend’s delivery aboard the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. The Expedition 67 crew members are helping researchers on the ground take advantage of weightlessness to reveal new phenomena potentially benefitting humans on Earth and in space.
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NASA Replans CLPS Delivery of VIPER to 2024 to Reduce Risk
Through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, the agency contracted Astrobotic of Pittsburgh to deliver the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar surface in search of ice and other potential resources. NASA has requested the Astrobotic and VIPER mission teams to adjust VIPER’s delivery to the Moon’s South Pole to November 2024.
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Orion to Fly Thousands of Names of Artemis I Team Members to the Moon
The names of nearly 30,000 people whose work made NASA’s Artemis I mission possible will fly inside the Orion spacecraft on its upcoming journey around the Moon. Even though there will be no people aboard Orion for its first flight test with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the spacecraft will carry the tribute on tiny, engraved microchips.
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