NASA Announces FY18 Budget Proposal, Hosts Behind-the-scenes Virtual Tour
Following the president’s announcement of the FY18 budget request, NASA took visitors behind the scenes for a virtual tour of NASA and gave a unique look into the agency’s cutting-edge work. Click the link above for the full tour, or click here to see NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Facebook Live.
(Video 8:49) NASA Puts RS-25 Engine and EM-1 Flight Controller to the Test
NASA successfully conducted the second in a series of RS-25 flight controller tests on this week, stepping closer to deep-space exploration with the world’s most-powerful rocket. The 500-second — more than eight full minutes — test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center marked another milestone toward launch of NASA’s new Space Launch System on its inaugural flight, known as Exploration Mission-1.
NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid
Psyche, NASA’s Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 — four years earlier than the original timeline. The revised trajectory is more efficient, ultimately shortening the cruise time.
CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics
A team of NASA scientists and international partners used data from the high-precision science instrument CLASP — the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter — to provide the first-ever polarization measurements of ultraviolet light emitted from the sun’s outer atmosphere. Previous polarization measurements were restricted to visible light that is emitted from the sun’s surface.
Short Space Station Spacewalk Fixes Computer Relay, Installs Antennas
Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer replaced a unit that regulates the operation of radiators, solar arrays and cooling loops and installed a pair of antennas on station to enhance wireless communications for future spacewalks. This was the 10th spacewalk for Whitson and moves her into third place for cumulative spacewalking time.
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