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Marshall Space Flight Center
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Learning Resources
Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 13, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the agency’s annual Student Launch competition.
Posted June 14, 2024
Artemis 2
Artemis
Humans in Space
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)
Media are invited in late July to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see progress on the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket as preparations continue for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. Participants joining the multi-day events will see the arrival and unloading of the 212-foot-tall SLS core stage at […]
Posted June 14, 2024
Ames Research Center
Earth
Extreme Weather Events
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Langley Research Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Natural Disasters
In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid.
Posted June 13, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA in the Park is coming back to Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama, on Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT. The event is free and open to the public. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, its partners, and collaborators will fill the park with space exhibits, music, food vendors, and […]
Posted June 13, 2024
General
Centennial Challenges
Centennial Challenges News
Marshall Space Flight Center
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy […]
Posted June 13, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Shining Stars: Marshall Teams Support Successful Crew Flight Test By Wayne Smith From preparing for flight readiness, to providing day-of-launch support, to delivering a critical piece of replacement hardware, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center played an integral role in the agency’s crew flight test to the International Space Station.
Posted June 13, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
The Universe
This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be prime targets for direct imaging searches for planets using future telescopes. The blue haloes represent stars that have been observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. The yellow star at the center of […]
Posted June 12, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA will roll the fully assembled core stage for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July. The 212-foot-tall stage will be loaded on the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media […]
Posted June 8, 2024
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Star Clusters
Stars
Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination with other NASA telescopes, is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory where stars are vigorously being produced.
Posted June 7, 2024
Centennial Challenges
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge on Wednesday, June 12 at Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU) Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The challenge aims to develop new technologies that could support a sustained human presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. Media and […]
Posted June 7, 2024
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