NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Opens Newest ‘Green’ Building
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, officially opened the doors of its newest environmentally friendly building on Earth Day, April 22. Building 4221 is a five-story, glass-and-steel structure designed to rigorous federal guidelines on energy and water efficiency.
Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: What Is the Engine Section?
In this episode, Jason Grow, a Boeing propulsion engineer for NASA’s Space Launch System core stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, explains what the core stage’s engine section is and why it’s one of the most complicated parts of the entire rocket.
NASA, Blue Origin Agreement Signals Rocketing Growth of Commercial Space
Officials from NASA and the private space company Blue Origin have signed an agreement that grants the company use of a historic test stand as the agency focuses on returning to the Moon and on to Mars, and America’s commercial space industry continues to grow.
NASA’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Quake’ on Mars
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian day, or sol.
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