In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of December 26 – December 30, 2022
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NASA’s Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More
2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. The agency launched its mega Moon rocket for the first time, sending its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon; kicked off a new era in astronomy with the Webb Space Telescope’s record-breaking new imagery from the cosmos; moved an asteroid in humanity’s first ever planetary defense demonstration, and much more.
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IXPE Quickly Observes Aftermath of Exceptional Cosmic Blast
On Oct. 9, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a high-energy blast of light from deep space. The light came from a powerful explosion called a gamma-ray burst dubbed GRB 221009A that ranks among the most luminous known. The IXPE science team had not planned to observe this gamma-ray burst, but this one created a unique opportunity, and a quick turnaround was essential.
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Construction Begins on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter
A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth’s orbital neighborhood, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now the mission is transitioning into the final design and fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule baseline.
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NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after two consecutive attempts, leading them to conclude the spacecraft’s solar-powered batteries have run out of energy.
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Marshall Intern Overcomes Hurricane, Completes NASA Internship
Wilbert Ruperto-Hernández, a senior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, is known affectionately by his friends and family as “Mr. NASA.” The nickname is warranted as he completes his internship with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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