Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched with the Canadian robotic arm – carrying this major new component to the International Space Station on Spacelab pallet hardware built at NASA’s Marshall […]
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First Shuttle crew join Marshall Center employees to celebrate 20th anniversary of launch
What: The STS-1 crew – Commander John Young and Pilot Bob Crippen – will join NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday, April 24, to mark the […]
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NASA Marshall Center boosts Alabama economy with $774 million in fiscal 2000 expenditures
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., contributed $774 million to Alabama’s economy in fiscal year 2000. That contribution included $238 million in salaries for civil service personnel and […]
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X-40A second free flight successful today, paving way for NASA’s X-37 space plane
The X-40A vehicle successfully performed a second free flight test today at Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif. The X-40A was lifted by an Army Chinook helicopter to an […]
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Students, teachers put on spacecraft engineer hats in NASA program geared to real-world learning
When students from five states participated in NASA’s Earth to Orbit Engineering Design Spacecraft Structures Challenge, they tackled some of the same issues NASA engineers face when designing spacecraft. To […]
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NRL Space Science Division’s J-PEX Instrument to Provide New Data on the Evolution of White Dwarf Stars
[Institute acronyms: Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of Leicester (UL), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)] The Joint Astrophysical Plasmadynamic Experiment (J-PEX) launched successfully on a […]
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Cornell cosmologist Thomas Gold revives old debate about moon to explain movement of dust into craters of asteroid Eros
More than just dust was kicked up when NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were […]
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Team from Springfield, Mo. powers to top of high school division at Great Moonbuggy Race
A team from Graff Career Center in Springfield, Mo., rode to victory today in the high school division of NASA’s 8th annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala. The Graff […]
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NASA Administrator to brief media April 9 on 2002 budget; Marshall director to discuss Center outlook
What: The NASA fiscal year 2002 budget briefing to the news media is scheduled for 1 p.m. CDT, Monday, April 9, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and will be […]
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Scientists Discover That Features on Northern Plains of Mars Are Tectonic Ridges, Not Ancient Ocean Shorelines
By Lori Stiles What scientists suspect might be ancient ocean shorelines on the northern plains of Mars is actually a network of tectonic ridges related to dramatic martian volcanism, a […]
