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NASA Picks Boeing for Composite Tank Tests
NASA has selected The Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, Calif., for the Composite Cryotank Technologies Demonstration effort.
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Space Telescope Completes Second Round of Testing
The Marshall Center has completed final cryogenic testing on six of the 18 mirror segments that will form NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror.
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Ann McNair to Receive 'Women Helping Women' Award
Ann McNair, director of the Office of Center Operations at the Marshall Center will be honored with a "Women Helping Women" award.
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Star CoRoT-2a Fries Nearby Planet
A nearby star is bombarding its companion planet with X-rays.
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393
Evidence for a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy has been found in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8.
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A Cosmic Exclamation Point
Chandra views a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction.
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Cindy Stemple Steers Robotic Lander to Testing Success
Stemple is flight control commander for the Robotic Lander Development Project at the Marshall Center.
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Galaxy NGC 3115
Chandra observes the flow of hot gas toward the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 3115.
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NASA Begins Testing of Next-Generation J-2X Engine
NASA conducted a combined chill test and 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine.
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A Pulsar's Mysterious Tail
A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail -- but looks can be deceiving.
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Marshall Center's Bassler Leads Robotic Lander Work
Illinois "farmgirl" Julie Bassler is now a NASA engineer developing a new robotic lander to explore the solar system.
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Pandora's Cluster Revealed
One of the most complicated and dramatic collisions between galaxy clusters ever seen is captured in this new composite image.
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NASA's Robotic Lander Performs Second Free-Flight Test
NASA's Robotic Lander Development Project at the Marshall Center conducted the second free-flight test of a robotic lander prototype.
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James Webb Space Telescope Completes First Test
The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror completed final cryogenic testing this week.
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NASA's Robotic Lander Takes Flight
Monday, June 13, marks the first free flight of this prototype for the Robotic Lander Development Project managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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Dr. Gerald Fishman to Receive 2011 Shaw Prize
Dr. Gerald J. Fishman, astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Center, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
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Baby Galaxy Core
This artist's impression shows a very young galaxy located in the early Universe less than one billion years after the Big Bang.
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Chandra Deep Field South
Astronomers have obtained the first direct evidence that black holes are common in the early universe.
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Baby Black Hole
Artist impression of a growing supermassive black hole located in the early universe.