NASA Marshall to Lead Artemis Program’s Human Lunar Lander Development
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Friday that NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will lead the agency’s Human Landing System Program for its return to the Moon by 2024.
NASA Wants Your Help Developing Autonomous Rovers
Autonomous robots will assist future astronauts during long-duration missions to other worlds by performing tedious, repetitive and even strenuous tasks. These robotic helpers will let crews focus on the more meticulous areas of exploring. To help achieve this, NASA’s Centennial Challenges program – managed by Marshall — and Space Center Houston of Texas, recently opened the second phase of the NASA Space Robotics Challenge.
NASA Mission Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return
After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has selected four potential sites for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — OSIRIS-Rex — spacecraft to “tag” its cosmic dance partner. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by Marshall.
I AmBuilding SLS: Hannah Hopkins
Meet Hannah Hopkins, whose team at Marshall uses software to simulate Space Launch System rocket launches.
One Year, 2 Trips Around Sun for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
Since NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made a single trip around the Sun — while the daring solar explorer is well into its third orbit around our star. The probe is speeding toward another close solar approach on Sept. 1. Marshall engineers helped develop a prototype and flight-test Parker’s Solar Probe Cup, which scoops up and examines solar wind.