Tag: Marshall Space Flight Center
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Northrop Grumman to supply solid rocket motors for first Mars Ascent Vehicle
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil samples, could be launched from the surface of Mars in one step of the Mars sample return mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Catlech NASA awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth as much as $84.5 million earlier this month to supply…
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NASA’s huge moon rocket faces critical test-firing before first launch
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA’s Space Launch System core stage on the B-2 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Credit: NASA A critical test firing Saturday of the four main engines powering the first stage of NASA’s gargantuan Space Launch System moon rocket is the final major hurdle before the…
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NASA proceeds with SLS booster stacking in Florida before core stage arrives
In this Jan. 12 photo, the lower two segments of each Space Launch System solid rocket booster are seen stacked on the SLS Mobile Launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center are continuing to stack segments of the Space Launch System’s side-mounted solid rocket boosters…
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NASA sets mid-January target for SLS hot fire test
NASA is moving forward with a crucial test-firing of the core stage of the first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket as soon as Jan. 17 after engineers were satisfied with the results of a fueling test last month. The hot fire test is the culmination of the SLS Green Run, a year-long series of…
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Penultimate piece of NASA’s first SLS rocket arrives at Kennedy Space Center
The Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter for the first Space Launch System test flight was offloaded from NASA’s Pegasus barge July 30 and transferred into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: TOSC/Tracy Yates One of the final pieces for the first test flight of NASA’s huge Space Launch System heavy-lift…
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NASA narrows design for rocket to launch samples off of Mars
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil samples, could be launched from the surface of Mars in one step of the Mars sample return mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Catlech After years of studies, test-firings and a survey of U.S. industry in preparation for launch of a…
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SLS pathfinder stage arrives at Florida launch site
The SLS core stage pathfinder was offloaded from NASA’s Pegasus barge Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News A steel tube built as a stand-in for the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for a series of rehearsals to hone the skills…
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NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will manage the agency’s plans to build a lunar landing system that will carry the next man and the first woman to the surface of the moon in…
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NASA puts Alabama center in charge of moon lander program, drawing Texans’ ire
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is dwarfed by a 149-foot-tall liquid hydrogen structural test article for the heavy-lift Space Launch System as he announces Marshall Space Flight Center’s leadership role in developing the human landing system for Artemis moon missions. (NASA Photo) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced today that Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will…
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Blue Origin strikes a deal with NASA to use a historic rocket test stand in Alabama
A 1965 photo shows a Saturn V first-stage rocket engine being test-fired at Marshall Space Flight Center’s Test Stand 4670 in Alabama. Blue Origin has struck a deal with NASA to refurbish and use the facility, which has been inactive since 1998. (NASA Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has signed an…