Structural Tests Continue for Top of World’s Most Powerful Rocket
Media were on hand this week at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as integrated structural testing continued on the top of NASA’s Space Launch System. Tests will ensure the rocket hardware can withstand the pressures of launch and flight. Check out NASA’s Tumblr post, Under Pressure, for more information about the tests.
Pair of Launches Send Cargo and Crew to Space Station
A pair of launches this week sent more than 7,600 pounds of cargo and two new crew members to the International Space Station. Orbital ATK’s seventh commercial resupply mission launched April 18 and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin launched April 20 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
NASA Team Explores Using LISA Pathfinder as ‘Comet Crumb’ Detector
A team of NASA scientists hopes to take advantage of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft’s record-breaking sensitivity to map out the distribution of tiny dust particles shed by asteroids and comets far from Earth. LISA Pathfinder has successfully demonstrated critical technologies for detecting ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.
NASA Officials Speak at Huntsville: The Future & Beyond Symposium
Todd May, Marshall Center director, and Roosevelt Johnson, NASA deputy associate administrator for Education, spoke this week at the “Huntsville: The Future & Beyond Symposium.” The symposium highlighted the importance of diversity and inclusion within organizations in Northern Alabama and discussed strategies to build cultural awareness and enhance engagement.
NASA Celebrates Earth Day by Letting Us All #AdoptThePlanet
As global-minded individuals and organizations prepare Earth Day celebrations around the world, NASA’s new “Adopt a Planet” campaign gives space enthusiasts a unique way to help raise awareness — by “adopting” one of 64,000 portions of Earth as seen from space.
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