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This Week in NASA History: Marshall-managed Life and Microgravity Spacelab Launches — June 20, 1996
This Week in NASA History: Marshall-managed Life and Microgravity Spacelab Launches — June 20, 1996

This week in 1996, STS-78 and its primary payload, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab, launched.

Capping off a Core Stage Confidence Tank
Capping off a Core Stage Confidence Tank

Todd Gough, a Boeing fabrication specialist at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, installs the end cap test fixture…

Michoud ‘Tanks Up’ for NASA’s Deep Space Rocket
Michoud ‘Tanks Up’ for NASA’s Deep Space Rocket

A crew completes installation and checkout procedures for the liquid oxygen tank weld confidence article, left. The liquid hydrogen and…

Pervasive Ice Retreat in West Antarctica
Pervasive Ice Retreat in West Antarctica

Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea. Scientists knew…

First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar
First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar

This X-ray image shows extended emission around a source known as Swift J1834.9-0846, a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star called a…

Qualification Testing on Avionics System
Qualification Testing on Avionics System

Ratana Meekham, a Qualis Corp. engineering technician at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, helps install approximately 5…

X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane
X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane

NASA engineers say the X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane, as shown in this artist’s rendering, is expected to validate research that…

Qualification Test Article of LVSA
Qualification Test Article of LVSA

A crane lifts the qualification test article of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) after final manufacturing on a 30-foot…

X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane
X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane

This artist's concept of NASA's X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane's specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics…

Qualification Structural Test Articles for the Core Stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility
Qualification Structural Test Articles for the Core Stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility

Engineers are constructing qualification structural test articles for the core stage at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.