NASA to Test Deep Space Rocket Booster and You’re Invited
NASA Social and media registration is open for the June 28 Qualification-Motor 2 test of the world’s largest, most powerful rocket booster for the Space Launch System. Events begin June 27, with a tour of the test facilities and interview opportunities with NASA and Orbital ATK officials.
Around the World 100,000 Times
It’s been a long journey for the International Space Station. Celebrating its 100,000th orbit of Earth this week, the space station has traveled 2.6 billion miles — equivalent to 10 round trips between Earth and Mars. And the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall, mission control for space station science, has been along for the ride, guiding more than 1,700 science experiments on board the orbiting laboratory.
(Video 3:09) NASA Video Series: Katherine Griffith ‘Living the American Dream’
After immigrating to the United States at 16, Katherine Griffith says she’s “living the American Dream” working with the nation’s space agency. Born in the Philippines, she joined the U.S. Air Force after graduating high school and earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Now an accountant at Marshall, Griffith was profiled in a NASA video series celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Month.
How Measurements On Earth Keeps NASA Working In Space
If you can’t measure it, you can’t understand or improve it. Regardless what “it” is. For researchers at Marshall’s Metrology and Calibration Laboratory, “it” can be anything from the most powerful rocket ever built, to the space station, or telescopes designed to study the evolution of our solar system. And our experts understand that the success of hardware in space is linked with accurate test data captured first here on Earth.
California Dreamin’: ET Comes Home
After four weeks at sea, NASA’s last space shuttle external tank, ET-94, arrived in California. The final 16 miles of its journey to the California Science Center will take it through the neighborhood streets of Los Angeles. There, it will be paired with space shuttle Endeavour for their final mission — to commemorate past achievements in space, educate and inspire future generations of explorers as part of a permanent shuttle exhibit.
For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall