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Director’s Corner: Paying it Forward in 2021

As we enter the first few days of 2021, my mind is focused And I’m so excited for the on you: the Marshall team. For me, you are a bright in work being done – TODAY a dark time. – on far-reaching technology like the Ascent Vehicle You have made Marshall Space Flight Center’s 60th year, and trail-blazing projects like a year that seemed burdened by some of humanity’s Solar Cruiser. Our next great greatest challenges, into a series of incredible successes. science project –the Imaging You have done all we’ve asked to help keep one another X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer safe and healthy, and still execute our missions. It is your –will launch later this year, vigilance and dedication that allows me to brag about all expanding our view of the you have accomplished throughout this chaotic time. While universe in ways we could a majority of the workforce enters the new year under never imagine! mandatory telework status, we do so with the promise of a brighter future in what lies ahead. Expertise at Marshall supporting these initiatives Marshall Director Jody Singer. I know there are those who continue on-site work every is vast – scouting landing day as we – together – further our mission. That includes sites on Mars and assisting the agency with identifying protecting, managing, and maintaining our facilities and science priorities for Artemis III, for example. And Marshall maintaining continuous contact with to manage continues to lead the agency in processes that will pay science in low-Earth aboard the International Space forward to humankind’s first journey to deep space, including Station. Each one of us has a role in Marshall’s missions, cryogenic fluid management, and additive manufacturing but we each also have an important duty to protect one for the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing another’s wellbeing. For all you do safely, no matter where National Initiative. Marshall has proven we, and our partners, you do it, I want to say, “Thank you.” are adapting and ready for many new challenges that our agency, and our world, could face. Your hard work is paying forward to 2021 in even more ways. The Green Run test series for the On our own campus, we also must apply those lessons about System is teaching us valuable things about America’s adapting and pushing forward. We prepare to say goodbye , which will take the first woman and next man to to Building 4200, while preserving its history; but we also the Moon. The first launch of the SLS will happen later continue master planning efforts for the Marshall of the this year in an historic milestone for the . future. I look forward to plans for a state-of-the-art lab that Hardware is being assembled for future Artemis missions we are now prioritizing as we improve our footprint and at Marshall and Michoud Assembly Facility in conjunction pursue efficiency. with our partners around the nation. Our Human Landing System team is working hand-in-hand with teams from Through each of these things, and more, I have learned what three companies, virtually, to soon learn which will be the an incredible team we have here at Marshall and Michoud one – or ones – to take humans to the lunar surface. With to rely on. I never dreamed we would learn so much about your work in these areas, Marshall remains crucial for ourselves, our team, and what we can do when faced with Artemis now and into the new year. the adversity of this past year. You are getting the job done, supporting the mission, and making incredible . I am 2020 saw the return of humans to space from American proud of you. soil with the Demo-2 and Crew-1 launches for the . I was proud to witness history I invite you to exit 2020 and blast off to 2021 knowing that as it unfolded, and Marshall is playing a critical role as we the ingenuity, passion, hard work, and dedication that brought establish a new cadence of missions to low-Earth orbit. us through this challenging year will continue to ignite historic achievements in 2021. I am hopeful and excited by what the And, Marshall’s science and technology portfolio future holds, and I am honored to be alongside you on the continued to blaze a trail into the unexplored regions of journey. our universe this year. Our Earth Science teams achieved groundbreaking results to ensure a brighter tomorrow for Jody Singer people around the world. and Equal Opportunity, Science and Technology Office, and Office of Procurement. and Equal Opportunity, Science andTechnology Office, and Office of Diversity Officer, MarsAscent Office Vehicle project, Commercial Crew Program, Financial of the Chief Center Operations, Office Engineering Directorate, Office of Officer, HumanExploration Development Information &Operations Office, Chief the of in the monthly Take 5profile series..The Star profiled leaders from the Office sharedtheir insights onthose topics andmore 2020,managers demic? Throughout aglobal pan didleaderschallenges face while guidingtheir teams inthe midst of doesit take ateam at MarshallandMichoud additional What to manage ?What Marshall, MichoudLeadersShareWisdom,Challenges

from more than 100countries. research investigations have been conducted, involving scientists and fouruncrewed Russian launches. To date, more than 3,000 assembled the station inorbit via37 flights partners andTranquility.and Node 3,later named Harmony NASAandits with Alenia SpazioinTurin, Italy, Node 2 to test andintegrate andtested Center at Marshall. engineers alsopartnered the Destiny labmodule, andthe Joint Quest Airlock, allbuilt by massive backbone the Node truss, 1module later named Unity, Laboratory.Systems Analysis &Integration included the That inMarshall’s chief deputy NASA engineer AnnMcNair, former facility. “We helped give bones,” the station good said retired is reflecting onits own contributions Space Station, Marshall crew operations onthe International continuous As NASAcelebrates 20years of Crew Operations International SpaceStation Celebrating 20Yearsof JANUARY will be transported to NASA’swill be transported forlaunch. the comprehensive Green Run test series, the stage completion of hasever the agency produced –andtested. Followingis the largest into the B-2 Test Stand onJan. 212-foot-tall rocket 22.The stage , was where the core stage at Michoud onJan.barge to NASA’s the stage 8.Pegasus ferried NASA’s rocket onto the agency’s Pegasus for crews rolled out andloaded the first completed core stage Administrator JimMorhardinattendance, With NASADeputy Stennis TestStandforGreenRun SLS CoreStageCompleted, Installed in to the orbital research lifted and installed lifted andinstalled - by the Office of Diversity andEqualOpportunity. by theOfficeof core value thisyear. Marshall’s diversity events areorganized internships, andotheractivities andaddedinclusion asa education initiatives, populations throughawidevariety of andinspireunderrepresented NASA works toengage institution. anHBCUorminority-serving of graduates employees whoidentifyasaminorityare four civil service is plainlyevidentatMarshall,wheremorethanonein historically Black anduniversities colleges commemorative spotlight onitsworkforce alumsfrom Month inFebruary,Black History its Marshallturned help expandhumanity’s reach intothecosmos. During , engines, technologies, andsciencehardware that ethnicities, andorientationswhodesign,build,testthe allages, backgrounds, itsteam–peopleof diversity of Each year, Marshallcelebratesthe Diverse Workforce Contributions by Marshall Celebrates FEBRUARY NASA’s ChandraX-ray Observatory Chandra SpotsRecord-breakingBlack Hole Explosion Marshall manages the Chandra program. the Chandraprogram. Marshall manages in Widefield Array Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope inIndia. Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory, aswell asradiodata fromthe Murchison was discoveredrecord-breaking eruption usingX-ray data fromChandraandthe European jets, orbeams, material. The that blast outward into space andslaminto any surrounding when matter fallingtoward the black material andenergy hole isredirected into amounts of black holes are famousforpullingmaterial toward them, they often expel extraordinary the cluster. Although unrivaled outburst was black fromasupermassive hole at the center of million light-years away. cluster, Originating inthe Ophiuchus galaxy researchers believe the . Their impact . Their detected the biggest explosion detected the biggest deliver on HLSand the SLS.” work we do. We to are providing the resources necessary the forward of proud and I’mvery setting the path togo “We are said. Singer ,” human in leadership our aligns with budget Human LandingSystem programs. “The the SLS and system. landing manages ahuman Marshall of Space Launch System, and $3.4 billion for the development the for billion $2.3 included that figure a -- agency the for fiscal year 2021 NASA budget, which called for $25.2 billion Jurczyk addressed President Trump’sDonald proposed team members associate administrator, to answer questions from Marshall Director JodyMarshall joined Steve Singer Jurczyk, NASA Proposed FY2021AgencyBudget Marshall, NASALeadersAddress during atown hallFeb. and 10. Singer inthe universe from390

Jurczyk wrote inanemail to the workforce. ourmission,” NASAAssociate Administrator Steve of NASA team isthe top priority andcritical to the success officer, JD Polk. our “As always, the protection and care of health andmedical Prevention andthe agency’s chief guidance fromthe Centers forDisease Control and employees to protect themselves andothers andfollow security andproperty. Marshallleadership encouraged – those working key missionfunctions orsafeguarding and facilities was restricted to mission-essential personnel to telework notice. to dosountil further Access to centers Response Framework, requiring employees who are NASA’s 3of centers andfacilities entered Stage agency Marshall initiated COVID-19, to limit the spread of In aneffort Telework inResponsetoCOVID-19 Marshall MovedtoMandatory MARCH mandatory telework status mandatory Niagara Falls,Niagara space. New York, that simulates the environment of 10days andtook place inavacuum chamber at Moog-ISP in over the course of demonstrations, and technology they’re tests occurred The being tested onEarth. the engines make the trip to the Moon,helping deliver new science instruments to enter lunarorbit and descend to the surface. Before thrusters next-generation lunarlanders could use program by Marshall.Futuremanaged Artemis aproject led and isbeing developed by of thruster Frontier Aerospace aspart prototypes60 hot fire March engine tests ontwo 16.The lunarlander thruster SimiValley,NASA andFrontier completed approximately Aerospace of California, Moon ThrustersWithstandOver60HotFireTests March 13.All

Close, LearnAboutInteriorofMars Marshall TeamMembersListen on the Red Planet, and NASA’s year InSight Marslander completed its first Earth NASA’s which by is managed Marshall. Discovery Program, otherwise would of not have InSight ispart been learned. onMarsthat more about soilproperties was able to learn provedone instrument difficult to put inplace, the team the . While dust devil that passed within 22yards of a orbiters, the sizeandintensity of andeven determined than indicated by the lander is10 times stronger Mars multiple marsquakes, the magnetic field around determined detected scientistsinstruments, andmissionmanagers its secrets. UsingInSight’s revealed three primary afew of scientists listened closely as Mars asMars software available to business andeducational institutions. licenses forthe Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program new device to shear andseal anoilwell’s drillpipe. Marshallmakes Technologies, aHouston-based Marshallcontractor, developed a way.with NASA–helps countries use coal inagreener Bastion liquidrocket engine development fromworking –gained of combustion chambers forthe LauncherOne rocket. Knowledge helped develop LongBeach, California, innovative Orbit of liquidfuels. Engineers fromNASAandVirgin of transportation technologists alsohelped develop apressure vessel to improve and medication cases that use space blanket material. Marshall andnontoxic ingredients, nanotechnology andnew mobile device developed materials are used inanew humidity sensor that uses Marshall technologies contained NASA’s Spinoff 44th annual issue of Improve LifeonEarth Spinoff 2020:MarshallInventions APRIL for test andflight hardware alike. developing move detailed transportation procedures teams spend months meticulously planningand The facilities and–ultimately –to its future launch site. the site where it was manufactured to various test from issafely andefficiently transported core stage flight hardware forNASA’s Space Launch System Ground andMarine Transportation teams ensure all way: the aptly nicknamed the of step one Marshallteam will be there every the agency’s program, Artemis inaugural missionof I,the Artemis forthe launchAs NASAprepares of Integral toMoving SLSRocket Marshall Ground, MarineTeams that improve Marshall- life onEarth.

“SLS Move Team.” The seven an agency and as a country have andasacountry not had since 1972.”an agency funding fora human landingsystem -- something we as including budget gave usabipartisan 2020, Congress Administrator JimBridenstine said,“Imean that in Isay the Moon.“When this ishistoric,” NASA of -- forsustainable humanexploration time inhistory With this development, NASAisontrack -- forthe first first woman andnext man to the lunarsurface by 2024. which will deliver the unique lander designs -- one of each Hawthorne, proposed California, and SpaceX of Huntsville; Washington; , aLeidoscompany of Kent, agency’s Blue Originof program. Artemis design anddevelop humanlandingsystems forthe On April30,NASA Develop HumanLandingSystem NASA Selects Companiesto announced three companies to to Center. Operations Integration to be monitored aroundthe clock fromMarshall’s late 1990s. EXPRESS Rack experiments continue developed, built, andtested them at Marshallin the racks, while Boeing andMarshallengineers jointly hours. NASA’s Johnson Space Center funded the combined rack operating more than 85total years of the first rack in2001,NASAhaslogged installation of forupto 10smallpayloads.easy transport Since cooling andheating,storage, communications, and experiments, each providing power, protectiveof a fixturesvariety support permanent Rack. These multipurpose payload shelving unit, orEXPRESS Experiments to the Space Station” the PRocessing of Space Station was the 11th and final delivered Among the cargo inMay to the International International SpaceStation EXPRESS Racks arrivesat Last ofVital,VersatileScience MAY NASA “EXpedite NASA “EXpedite memento forthe builders. the astronauts take pictures with the lockers inorbit –a signs the lockersstation. Each and student and instructor to the space hardware makingthe journey any piece of of pieces are manufactured to the tight tolerances required and more than 200 rivets, fasteners, andbearings. The components, machined by including 41parts the students, approximately 280 each lockerProgram, iscomprised of school students United with NASAto Create Hardware – NASA’sexercise harnesses. Part of HUNCH –High lockerThe contents included components and Alabamaandaroundthe country.students fromNorth Space Station International Hurley andBobBehnken brought with them to the NASA’s of As part Demo-2 mission,astronauts Doug Lockers forTriptoSpaceStation Area HighSchool StudentsBuild integrated performance analyses. performance integrated structures, materials andprocesses, fracture control, and system, support the and abort systems,flight termination propulsion,Draco andSuperDraco life thrusters, stage the Merlin engines, improved the safety andreliability of monitoring the launch. Working with SpaceX, teams Center joined NASAandSpaceX teams in Support operations. Ateam at Marshall’s Huntsville Operations system, including launch, in-orbit, docking, andlanding end test flight NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2, the missionwas an and operated American crew spacecraft. Known as launched fromAmerican soilinacommercially built On May 30, for the first time in history, NASA astronauts Test FlightofSpaceXCrewDragon Marshall ContributestoHistoric to validate the SpaceX crew transportation to validate the SpaceX crew transportation four lockers built by highschool end-to-

JUNE Marshall engineers Structural TestingCampaign NASA CompletesSpaceLaunchSystem Shuttle Program more than 30years ago. Shuttle Program test campaign at the center since tests conducted forthe Space qualification testing at Marshall wrapped up the largest structural the SLS for the tank’s designers. successful completion of The expected, proving flight readiness andproviding critical data in the weld location andat the approximate loadlevels engineers cripplingforce fromallsides. liquidoxygen tank failed The of pounds hydraulic cylinders inthe test stand applied millionsof gushed fromthe propellant tank at Marshall’s Test Stand 4697as failure June 24.Water to its point of test article oxygen structural the agency’s Space Launch System rocket by testing the liquid completed the structural testing campaign completed the structural mission, hardware, and crew safety. promotes andstrengthens the center’s focus on Huntsville that Jacobsand partner Engineering of Marshall’s Safety andMissionAssurance Directorate Hands initiative isacenterwide campaign led by Marshall missions. Mission Success Isin Our The NASAand their jobsandthe safety and success of members made meaningful connections between Star spotlighted howThe Mission SuccessisinOurHands Mission-Critical On-siteWork Marshall ResumesAuthorized for phased strategy leadership refined anin-depth, COVID-19, the center’s the spreadof to mitigate telework mandatory As Marshallentered week 12of Polarimetry Explorer picked up, aswell. work onthe ImagingX-ray to resume. Progress several facilities were for cleaned andprepared updates, facility cleaning andpreparations, and testing, adapter structural stage components -- including the liquidoxygen tank resumed forseveral SLS At Marshall,progress activities carefully recommenced at Michoud. Space Launch production The System core stage precautions.potential risksandrequired mitigation employeesgovernment andcontractors to identify both of andmanagement labor representation, made inconsultation with occupational safety, returning to on-site workreturning eight Marshall team eight Marshallteam for for . The decision was . The history still to come fromthe Marshall team.” history allthe groundbreaking achievements reminds usof humankind.Celebrating these and victories forallof discovery,achieve exploration, 60 consecutive years of Director Jody world said.“The haswitnessed us Singer Marshall hasmade,” the history Marshall of be part accomplishments its anniversary with alookback at some of and strides later, Marshallcelebrated its milestone historic leaps with asolidfoundation. Sixty years of provided the young thisexperienced group agency of NASA’s MarshallSpace Flight Center. transfer The became Ballistic Missile Agency the Army core of On July 1,1960,the technical andadministrative Marshall SpaceFlightCenter #Celebrating 60Yearsof JULY . “I could not be more proud to . “Icould not be more proudto eoeteluc fNASA’sbefore the launch of MarsPerseverance rover. be delivered to Kennedy.. It arrived at Kennedy onJuly 29,shortly Artemis Irocket hardwareto built at Marshall the final piece of by Teledyne Brown Engineering inHuntsville. hardware was The other NASAfacilities, the LVSA isproduced exclusively at Marshall the SLSrocket are manufactured at of stages the larger stage. While space rocket’sthe deep propulsion andinterim cryogenic core stage hardware that connects July adapter isacone-shaped piece of 17.The NASA’s Space Launch System rocket onto the agency’s Pegasus barge Marshall teams moved I the Artemis on BargeforTriptoKennedy Marshall Teams LoadArtemisIHardware most iconic most iconic visit the Red Planet forthe first time. humanexplorers to long-duration lunarmissionsthat will prepare America’s Moonto Marsendeavor, larger which of includes part Perseverance isset to landonMarsFeb. 18,2021.Mars2020is by NASA’s2020. Built andmanaged Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helping NASAidentify Jezero asthe optimallandingsite forMars scientist Caleb Fassett in Marshall planetary was instrumental that will pave the way forfuture robotic andhumanexploration. its landingsite, Jezero Crater, anddemonstrate technologies of past microscopic life onMars, explore the diverse geology of to the Red rover’s Planet. The missionis to seek out signs primary NASA’s Begins JourneytoJezeroCrater Mars 2020PerseveranceRover launch vehicle adapte stage Mars 2020Perseverance rover mission r for for launched July 30

NASA’s NASA’s InventorsHall ofFame Two FromMarshallInductedinto celebrated at the White House in1997. celebrated at the White spinoffs,technologies became important including aknee brace his develop spacecraft andpropulsion technologies. Many of yet creative,elegant, solutions, he used hisprowess to designand resulting inaMarshall-record 27patents. Favoring simple and Sensor. Myers’ work revolved around the mechanical facets, Space Station andNASA’sthe International Lightning Imaging critical role inNASA’s humanandrobotic missions, including on signal conditioning andelectronic control systems that play a has spent hiscareer designing, developing, building,andtesting and William“Neill” Myers. Howard, who holds20U.S. patents, the inaugural2020inductees were Marshall’s David Howard achievement: Fame. the agency’s Among online Inventors Hallof

top inventors AUGUST nwhv hi w iia epeo now have their own digital temple of the material’s behavior duringbooster assembly. about III.Engineers also collected information SLS flights beyond Artemis the solvent onfuture the team collected data to help verify use of thrust, propellant andproduced 23,000poundsof nearly 1,800poundsof burned process. Usinga24-inch-diameter, 20-foot-long subscale test motor that from subscale to full-scale tests, andthe test was in that asignificant step nozzle material forthe boosters. are Material evaluated changes inphases Launch System solidrocket booster contractor prime –evaluate a new Promontory, –the Space Corp. of Grumman NASA andNorthrop On Aug. 6,a22-second hot fire test in the Motor TestHelpsEvaluateNewSLSMaterials Murfreesboro won division. the college division. Middle Tennessee State University –Team 2of School inPensacola, , won the highschool Best Design Award.Neil Armstrong Escambia High Aeronautics andAstronautics’ American Institute of ceremony. were awarded, Eight categories including the Rover awards were Challenge celebrated inavirtual the HumanExploration years. OnAug. 21,winners of claimed top honors forthe seventh time in the last eight Nashville, Tennessee,Vanderbilt which University of Student Launch winners, including overall winner On July awards 23,avirtual ceremony honored the the teams was still celebrated andrecognized. work of due to the COVID-19Challenges pandemic, the hard Exploration Rover Challenge for both NASA’s in-person activitiesWhile inHuntsville were canceled Student Launch,RoverChallenge NASA AnnouncesWinnersof East Test Area at Marshall Student Launch andHuman helped helped Artemis Student Student Artemis Industry &Advocate AwardsIndustry ceremony. Marshall’s 14th annual of Small Business Programs, aspart NASA’s Delgado, associate administrator of Office of Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk andGlenn Marshall smallbusiness specialist David Brock by NASA to MarshallDirector Jody presented and virtually Singer often than any other NASAcenter. award The was the prize more technical personnel. Marshallhasearned and procurement office,management, andprogram by the winning center’ssmall business programs senior initiatives, andhonorssignificant contributions to NASA’s invariouspromote smallbusiness participation agency the NASAcenter with the best innovative practices that Cup awarded annual award since 2008.The recognizes It was the center’sbusiness program. sixth Administrator’s Cup formanagingthe agency’s most effective small with the SmallBusiness Administrator’s 30 NASA honoredMarshallonSept. Sixth SBACup Marshall Wins SEPTEMBER rocket Moonlanding. boosters formissionsfollowing the initial Artemis aswell aspotential new materials andprocesses to improveperformance SLS Engineers are usingdata fromthe test to evaluate the motor’s thrust. pounds of producing more than 3.5million booster fired into the Utah desert, support andflight – the five-segment flight boosters power the SLS rocket duringliftoff time that the III.ForArtemis alittle over two minutes –the same amount of conducted the first full-scale, full-duration booster hot fire test forflights beyond 2 rocket mission to the Moon, teams inUtah onSept. forthe first Artemis NASA’s assembling the boosters of As NASAbegan Space Launch System NASA ConductsSpaceLaunchSystem Booster TestforFutureArtemisMissions technology advancing rapidly.technology ayear earlier than scheduled due to the occurred traditional welding methods –andcompletion 30 days compared with nearly one year using channels. Fabrication inrecord time –just occurred cooling standing 38inches tall, with fully integrated nozzles, measuring 40inches indiameter and NASA-printed the largest team produced one of complex engine large, components. RAMPT The of potentially reducing the production cost andtime rocket usingmetal powder engine parts andlasers, to 3D-print blown deposition powder directed energy advancing anadditive manufacturing technique called and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology space. into deep NASA’sjourneys methods to print rocket that could power engine parts NASA, industry, andacademia are pioneering Additive from manufacturing, or3Dprinting, experts Include Large-Scale3DPrinting Future RocketEnginesMay

Rapid Analysis Rapid Analysis project is project is Science MissionDirectorate. New FrontiersMarshall manages forNASA’s mission inNASA’s New Frontiers Program. mission operations for OSIRIS-REx, the third NASA’s GoddardSpace Flight Center manages home. Sample Return Capsule forthe journey more than that, stowing it inthe spacecraft’s material, successfully captured much ounces of Acquisition Mechanism, intended to obtain 2 craft’s The Earth. Touch andGoSample that could haveingredients helped seed life on andflinging years ago taking shape billionsof window intothe early solarsystem asit was first ancient asteroid, Bennu, The offered scientists a asteroid –anunprecedented NASAmilestone. an collected rocks anddustfromthe surface of Regolith Explorer”spacecraft, orOSIRIS-REx, ResourceInterpretation, Identification, Security, On Oct. 20,NASA’s “Origins, Spectral Amount ofAsteroid Collects Significant OSIRIS-REx OCTOBER

The The Workforce, FutureMissions Marshall Master Plan Supports lgsisseadhpo center facilities with NASA’saligns its stewardship of strategic plan. The master planning team beginning infiscal year 2024. laboratory anew science andavionics of Building 4487to prioritize construction issues.newly detected exterior structural Marshallalsowill deactivate demolished in2030,isset to be deactivated infall2021the wake of future. Building4200,pictured here andpreviously intended to be make way fornew, efficient facilities that will equip Marshallfor the mission. It identifies agingbuildings to be vacated anddeactivated to tures, utilities, roads, operations critical to NASA’s andlandto support facilities, struc road mapto the development andsustainment of Center Operations, a as serves by engineers inMarshall’s Office of Marshall Master Plan , developed in2003andrevised periodically time hoursinto years. hours each day, stretching those anticipated life unit operates just afew The replacement. parts life to more than 4,300hourswithout service expected to extend the unit’s –upgrades parts more durable drive pulley andredesigned other the process. Marshallteam printed a The of due to the steam andheat function but degrades demands proper contact andtension to print technology engineers and Processes Laboratory Urine Processor Assembly team andMaterials Marshall’sresupplying potable water fromEarth. by the crew andreducing costs associated with the water needed purification, providing 90%of delivers reclaimed wastewater forfiltration and Space Station’s urine processor assembly distillation system forthe International The Recycling Challenge International SpaceStation Marshall EngineersSolve to upgrade the belt drive, to upgrade which - used 3D used 3D

- h egho afootball field. the length of fully assembled, eachWhen rocket booster will be about five segments. launcher. Each SLSboosters consists of hardware to be placed on the mobile the first pieces of the steering duringthe rocket’s initial ascent, are 70% of aft assemblies,The which house the system that controls segments in November. Engineers lowered the shape inside the Vertical Assembly Buildingat Kennedy NASA’s Space Launch System rocket to take began Booster Stacking ShapesUp Artemis ISpaceLaunchSystem

into place onthe mobile launcher Nov. 21. NOVEMBER scientists fromthe time each investigation isselected to fly. arise duringanexperiment, having worked with the experiments’ the team at Marshallhelps resolvemanagement, any issues that 80-100 hours. and can perform Inaddition to timeline integration each week, while aseven-astronautscience can be performed crew with three crew members onthe space station, 40-50 hoursof record science capability enabled crew. by the large Duringmissions the experiments the onthe space station, was ready to support Center Operations Integration the outpost andjoined the Expedition 64mission.The expedition took itsfirst orbit when the Crew-1 missiondocked to On Nov. Space Station long-duration International 16,the largest Return FromSpaceStationAstronauts Marshall TeamEnablesIncreasedScience first of 10 first of a asal hc aae l f allof at Marshall,which manages at the lunarSouth Pole. The 1 andseeks innovative solutions forexcavating icy regolith be led by Marshall,offers a$500,000prize purse forPhase the Ice LunarChallenge forlong-duration . The technology entrepreneurs, anduniversity students alike to advance inventors, new competitions incentivizeThese garage launched two new lunar-focused in2020. challenges at Marshall, managed program, Centennial Challenges The Two NewChallengesin2020 Centennial ChallengesLaunches storing power onthe Moon. to create novel solutions fordistributing, managing,and featuring a$500,000prize purse forPhase 1,invites teams Payload , the first Centennial Challenge to to , the first Centennial Challenge

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Break Break , upper stage at Michoud. upper stage the core will manufacture stage, andassemble the Boeing, the prime contractor forthe EUS aswell as the SLSrocket Artemis III. beyond future flights of ensure safety. EUSwill be used for The space environments deep and,when completed, will EUS meets critical design requirements to withstand the design review Dec. assessment certifies 18.The Space Launch System rocket passed its critical Exploration orEUS, Upper Stage, The forNASA’s of SLSExploration UpperStage NASA CompletesDesignReview DECEMBER NASA Demonstrate Propulsion NASA Selects SolarCruiserto solar storms headed to Earth. solar storms scientists hope to obtain more advanced of warnings By positioning amonitoring spacecraft closer to the Sun, geo-tail. inEarth’s the ecliptic plane, andinstationary space, out of high-value fromdeep science, including SmallSat observations system. Such asystem could provide access to new orbits enabling will demonstrate the ability to use solarradiation asapropulsion anearly 18,000-square-foot solarsail,SolarCruiser Consisting of in 2025with the Interstellar MappingandAcceleration Probe. Marshall–to share aride to space investigator Les Johnson of selected Solar Cruiser –aSmallSat missionledby principal manufacturing core stages for Artemis II and Artemis III. IIandArtemis manufacturing forArtemis core stages I,technicians at Michoudfor Artemis are simultaneously through Green Runtechnicians at Stennis progress testing the Green Run series: the SLShot fire. As the final test of successful wet for dress rehearsal test, teams will prepare a propellants. cryogenic Following data analysis of of gallons thousands of two immense propellant tanks of rehearsal test involves loadinganddrainingthe stage’s tests – eight Green Run propellant loadingduringthe seventh of for test operations before successfully completing TechniciansLaunch System Program. refined procedures December marked several milestones for NASA’s Space Testing, FutureCoreStages NASA Makes ProgressonGreenRun a fullwet dress rehearsal –Dec. wet 20.The dress