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The Marshall Star is published online every Wednesday by the Office of Communications at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. For earlier editions, please send email to: Marshall.Star@msfc.nasa.gov.

2018 Marshall Star Year-In-Review

January 30, 2019

SLS Liquid Hydrogen Tank Test Article Moved at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility

February 2019

February 6

More than 700 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center team members, Boeing employees, Team Redstone participants and local officials filled 17 buses Feb. 6 to view the liquid hydrogen tank structural test article installed in Test Stand 4693 at Marshall.

February 13

February 20

February 27

March 2019

Dr. Shanique Brown, an assistant professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, delivers the Black History Month keynote address to team members at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Feb. 28.

March 6

Women from Marshall Space Flight Center, in red and navy at left, celebrate International Women’s Day with NBC’s Today Show in New York on March 8. Several women from Marshall’s workforce represented NASA, including Marshall’s first female center director, Jody Singer,

March 13

more than 2,000 high school students competed in the FIRST Robotics Competition “Rocket City Regional” at the Von Braun Center, supported by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

March 20

Vice President Mike Pence challenges NASA to put American astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

March 25

April 2019

As Women's History Month concludes March 31, the women of the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center salute their female colleagues and customers on console and in laboratories around the nation and aboard the International Space Station.

April 3

The rocket named Zeppelin from Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida, roars off of the pad at launch day for the 2018-2019 Student Launch competition.

April 10

The International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany, won first place in the high school division of the 2019 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

April 17

Taking part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open Building 4221 are, from left, David Burns, manager of Marshall’s Science & Technology Office; Roy Malone, director of Marshall’s Office of Center Operations; Calvin Williams, NASA assistant administrator for the Office of Strategic Infrastructure; Col. Sebastien Joly, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile District; Marshall Director Jody Singer; U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama; Bobby Watkins, manager of Marshall’s Human Exploration Development & Operations Office; and Marshall Deputy Director Paul McConnaughey.

April 24

May 2019

May 1

new, deep space habitat ground prototype was unveiled at a May 1 event for local media at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

May 8

NASA and Northrop Grumman technicians in Promontory, Utah, have applied insulation to the final booster motor segment for the second flight of NASA’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, and NASA’s Orion spacecraft.

May 15

Steve Shih, NASA associate administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, is greeted after his opening address by Melvin McKinstry, supervisory budget analyst in Marshall’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

May 22

Engineers at Marshall test-fire a 3D-printed rocket engine combustion chamber. NASA is partnering with Virgin Orbit to deliver advanced engine hardware that employs cutting-edge additive manufacturing solutions.

May 29

June 2019

The largest piece of structural test hardware for the Space Launch System is loaded into Test Stand 4693 at Marshall on Jan. 14.

June 5

NASA achieved a significant milestone in manufacturing the first large, complex core stage that will help power the Space Launch System rocket on upcoming missions to the Moon.

June 12

The Markarian 1216 galaxy provides data about its history and evolution in both the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum as studied by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, right, and the visible portion of the spectrum as studied by the Hubble Space Telescope, left.

June 19

June 26

July 2019

People standing in a rocket factory

July 3

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center recently partnered with Aerie Aerospace to restore one of the first Mercury-Redstone rockets.

July 10

Five thousand model rockets take to the sky at the USSRC on July 16 in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record.

July 17

Team members from Marshall, including Center Director Jody Singer, far right, marched in a parade.

July 24

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is commemorating its 20th anniversary with an assembly of new images.

July 31

August 2019

Artistic Rendering: CubeSat collecting data from a Moon Crater

August 7

On August 15, 2018 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited Marshall Space Flight Center. Upon his arrival he was greeted by MSFC Acting Director Jody Singer along with the senior management team. From atop Marshall’s Test Stand 4693, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and SLS Stages Integration Manager Tim Flores discuss the capabilities of Marshall’s newest test stand. The qualification test version of the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System’s core stage will be positioned between the stand’s 221-foot-tall twin towers where it will be pushed, pulled and subjected to the stresses it will endure during liftoff and flight.

August 14

Administrator Bridenstine announces that Marshall will lead NASA’s Human Landing System Program during a press conference.

August 21

Cassiopeia A in X-ray and optical light.

August 28

September 2019

Former Johnson Center Director Ellen Ochoa, right, visits with members of the Payload Operations Integration Center.

September 4

Community college students test their rover design at during the 2017 NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars workshop.

September 11

September 18

Planet Mars

September 25

October 2019

NASA's Pegasus Barge makes its way along the intercoastal waterway to its destination at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf, to make its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The upgraded 310-foot-long barge arrived Sept. 27, 2019, ferrying the 212-foot-long Space Launch System rocket core stage pathfinder. The pathfinder is a full-scale mock-up of the rocket's core stage. The pathfinder will be used by the Exploration Ground Systems Program and their contractor, Jacobs, to practice offloading, moving and stacking maneuvers, using important ground support equipment to train employees and certify all the equipment works properly. The pathfinder will stay at Kennedy for approximately one month before trekking back to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana.

October 2

No Promises, North Carolina State University’s rocket in the 2019 Student Launch competition, roars off the launch pad.

October 9

Amy Ross, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, watch as Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), and Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project Manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing the Orion Crew Survival System suit, right, wave after being introduced by the administrator, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. The Orion suit is designed for a custom fit and incorporates safety technology and mobility features that will help protect astronauts on launch day, in emergency situations, high-risk parts of missions near the Moon, and during the high-speed return to Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

October 16

Dozens of enterprising individuals gathered Oct. 18-20 for the eighth annual NASA International Space Apps Challenge.

October 23

Two men and 2 cars

October 30

November 2019

NASA astronaut Anne McClain exercises aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 58-59.

November 6

All Four Engines Are Attached to the SLS Core Stage for Artemis I Mission

November 13

NASA astronaut Steve Swanson grows vegetables on the space station in the Veggie facility, housed in an EXPRESS Rack designed and built at Marshall.

November 20

Two people standing front of a wall of screens showing a multicolored image of a rocket body

November 27

December 2019

illustration showing Fermi and Swift spacecraft against stylized stellar backdrop

December 4

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gives remarks on the agencys Artemis program, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in front of the core stage for NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASAs Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Through Artemis NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

December 11

Jody Singer helped unveil two of 16 statues highlighting Alabama milestones at official dedication of Alabama Bicentennial Park.

December 18

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