Marshall Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Supports NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch By Jessica Barnett Team members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated another successful launch as astronauts on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission began the journey to the International Space Station in the late hours of March 3.
Posted March 6, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative.
Posted February 29, 2024
Artemis
Human Landing System Program
Marshall Space Flight Center
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign that will establish the foundation for long-term scientific exploration at the Moon, crew will need to move between different spacecraft to carry out lunar landings.
Posted February 28, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Nebulae
Supernovae
The Universe
Three new sonifications of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have been released in conjunction with a new documentary about the project that makes its debut on the NASA+ streaming platform. Sonification is the process of translating data into sounds.
Posted February 28, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Learning Resources
By Jessica Barnett Sometimes, all it takes is a few years and the right people to completely change a person’s career trajectory. One such example is Meredith Patterson, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who went from knowing little to nothing about rockets to being part of the team […]
Posted February 27, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 1
Artemis 2
Humans in Space
I Am Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Launching a rocket to the Moon takes perseverance and diligence. Josh Whitehead – a world-class engineer, race-winning long-distance runner, and father – knows that it also takes a good attitude. “Positive energies are vital, particularly when working through challenges,” Whitehead says. “Challenges are opportunities to learn and grow.
Posted February 22, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
By Celine Smith As NASA continues its exploration of the solar system, including future crewed missions to Mars, experts in the agency’s Office of Planetary Protection are developing advanced tactics to prevent NASA expeditions from introducing biological contaminants to other worlds.
Posted February 22, 2024
Stennis Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA will conduct an RS-25 hot fire Friday, Feb. 23, moving one step closer to production of new engines that will help power the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, are set to begin the […]
Posted February 22, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Center Director Holds First Media Event By Jessica Barnett NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s newest center director, Joseph Pelfrey, took to the podium Feb. 15 in the lobby of Building 4221 to host his first media event since his appointment to the position. Pelfrey, who had been serving as acting center director since August […]
Posted February 22, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxy clusters
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Space Flight Center
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded in the system known as SDSS J1531+3414 (SDSS J1531 for short).
Posted February 21, 2024
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