Marshall Space Flight Center

Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) was an invited panelist at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) organized GEOINT Symposium Panel titled “Geo-GPT” for Real-Time Geospatial Discovery.

Posted August 5, 2024

Biological & Physical Sciences

Glenn Research Center

ISS Research

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Materials Science

Physical Sciences

Plant Biology

Space Biology

NASA Sends More Science to Space, More Strides for Future Exploration

Biological and physical investigations aboard the Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply mission NG-21 included experiments studying the impacts of zero gravity on grass, how packed bed reactors could improve water purification both in space and on Earth, and observations on new rounds of samples that will allow scientists to learn more about the cha

Posted August 5, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Centennial Challenges

Centennial Challenges News

Earth's Moon

Mars

Marshall Space Flight Center

Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16. In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food […]

Posted August 2, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Game Changing Development Program

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Additive Manufacturing Project Shapes Future for Agency, Industry Rocket Makers

The widespread commercial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies, commonly known as 3D printing, is no surprise to design engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing processes to make rocket parts.

Posted August 1, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for July 31, 2024

SLS Core Stage Rolls Inside Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the Artemis II mission is inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center.

Posted July 31, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Marshall Logistics Support Services II Contractor

NASA has awarded the MSFC Logistics Support Services II (MLSS II) contract to Akima Global Logistics, LLC to provide logistics support services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The performance-based indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum potential value of $96.3 million.

Posted July 25, 2024

Black Holes

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Gamma Rays

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Stellar-mass Black Holes

The Universe

NASA’s Fermi Finds New Feature in Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Yet Seen

In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.

Posted July 25, 2024

Low Earth Orbit Economy

Commercial Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Supports Burst Test for Orbital Reef Commercial Space Station

An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale ultimate burst pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for new destinations in low Earth orbit. This milestone is part of a NASA Space Act Agreement awarded to Blue Origin in 2021. […]

Posted July 25, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for July 24, 2024

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far […]

Posted July 24, 2024

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity

By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far as 80,000 miles away and a quarter-century in the […]

Posted July 23, 2024