Marshall Space Flight Center
For more than six decades, NASA and the nation have relied on Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to deliver its most vital propulsion systems and hardware, flagship launch vehicles, world-class space systems, state-of-the-art engineering technologies and cutting-edge science and research projects and solutions. Explore Marshall’s contributions to America’s space program.
Location
Huntsville, AL
Founded
July 1, 1960
People
7,000
Director
Joseph Pelfrey
LIVE: NASA’s Student Launch 2024
Student Launch challenges students from middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States to design, build, test, and fly a high-powered amateur rocket and a payload
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NASA Releases Hooray for SLS! Children's Book
Hooray for SLS! is the first in a series of illustrated children's books that aims to introduce young explorers to NASA's Artemis campaign. In addition to a downloadable version of the book, coloring sheets, and student activities, parents and educators can watch and listen to a read aloud version of the book on YouTube.
Marshall Expertise
Space Launch System
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Technology Demonstration Missions
Marshall Social Media
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History
Pioneering spaceflight and innovation
Since its beginning in 1960, Marshall has provided the agency with mission-critical design, development and integration of the launch and space systems required for space operations, exploration and scientific missions.
Marshall’s legacy in rocket engineering includes providing the Saturn rockets that powered Americans to the moon and the Lunar Roving Vehicle that aided exploration of the moon; managing the development of Skylab, America’s first space station; developing space shuttle propulsion systems and experiments, including Spacelab; building the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory; and building the International Space Station’s laboratory modules and experiment facilities and operating station science experiments.
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