SLS Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter Loaded On Pegasus Barge
The launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was loaded onto the agency’s Pegasus on June 17 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Pegasus will transport the Artemis I flight hardware to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations. The launch vehicle stage adapter was produced entirely at Marshall by Teledyne Brown Engineering.
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby: 10 Cool Things We Learned About Pluto
Five years ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time, surface images of this distant world were captured in colored detail. The New Horizons mission is part of the New Frontiers Program, managed by Marshall.
Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity
A team of researchers has identified a group of black holes that had previously been mistaken for a different kind of black hole. This discovery has important implications for understanding how supermassive black holes grow and evolve over billions of years. The misjudged black holes were found in the Chandra Deep Field-South, the deepest X-ray image ever taken.
Faces Behind NASA’s Artemis Gateway: Ginger Flores
Marshall’s Ginger Flores is manager for the Habitation Systems Development Office. Born in Huntsville in 1969, the same year Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, pursuing a career at NASA was predestined.
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may weigh only about 4 pounds but it has some outsize ambitions.
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