Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Marshall Names Roger Baird Associate Director

Roger Baird has been selected as associate director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In this role, Baird will lead execution and integration of the center’s business operations, mission support enterprise functions, and budget management.

Posted August 20, 2024

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

Launch Services Program

Marshall Space Flight Center

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

Small Satellite Missions

NASA CubeSats Launch as Commercial Rideshares

A pair of CubeSats from NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, or PTD, series lifted off on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission at 11:56 a.m. PDT Friday, August 16, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California.

Posted August 19, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Centennial Challenges

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.

Posted August 19, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for August 14, 2024

Marshall Director Joseph Pelfrey Addresses Space and Missile Defense Symposium NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Joseph Pelfrey gives a keynote address during the 2024 Space and Missile Defense Symposium on Aug. 8 at the Von Braun Center in downtown Huntsville.

Posted August 15, 2024

Artemis 2

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to Watch Artemis II Rocket Adapter Roll Out

To mark progress toward the first crewed flight test around the Moon in more than 50 years for the benefit of humanity, NASA will welcome media Wednesday, Aug. 21, to see a key adapter for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The cone-shaped launch vehicle […]

Posted August 14, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Supermassive Black Holes

NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole’s Snack Schedule

By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material, as described in our latest press release. This artist’s impression shows a […]

Posted August 14, 2024

Human Landing System Program

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Challenge Seeks ‘Cooler’ Solutions for Deep Space Exploration

NASA’s Human Lander Challenge, or HuLC, is now open and accepting submissions for its second year.

Posted August 13, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Wallops Flight Facility

A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

By Jessica Barnett From Earth, one might be tempted to view the Sun as a unique celestial object like no other, as it’s the star our home planet orbits and the one our planet relies on most for heat and light. But if you took a step back and compared the Sun to the other […]

Posted August 9, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for August 7, 2024

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 whose research created stronger, lighter weight materials and new manufacturing proce

Posted August 7, 2024

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

I Am Artemis: Julia Khodabandeh

Unlike most of her friends in the 80s who covered their walls with posters of bands, Julia Khodabandeh plastered hers with posters of rockets and fighter jets. Khodabandeh’s interest in aerospace and aeronautics developed at a young age. Her parents were avid fans of the Apollo Program and were heavily invested in her education. Khodabandeh’s […]

Posted August 7, 2024