Marshall officials expect center closure to last for weeks

by Jeff Foust — April 6, 2020

The leaders of one of NASA’s largest field centers that has been effectively closed by the coronavirus pandemic expect it will be at least several weeks before personnel can start working on site again.

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Former SLS Boss Promoted Again

by Jeff Foust — November 16, 2015

NASA named Todd May as the acting director of the Marshall Space Flight Center Nov. 13.

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NASA Picks Up $120M Option on Jacobs’ Marshall Contract

by Dan Leone — August 25, 2014

Tullahoma, Tennessee-based Jacobs Technology won the original Engineering and Science Services and Skills Augmentation contract in 2012.

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SNC Working with NASA Marshall, Teledyne Brown

by SpaceNews Editor — March 17, 2014

SNC said it is collaborating with Marshall and Teledyne Brown on mission concepts for the Dream Chaser.

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VIDEO | Marshall Spacecraft Design Practices

by SpaceNews Editor — November 11, 2013

One of the key changes is that the new draft has made it amply clear that it is not in conflict with any of the existing treaties and conventions and that it is fully consistent with other U.N. instruments, including previous international legal instruments, declarations, principles and guidelines.

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NASA Amendment Would Weigh Marshall Closure

by Brian Berger — July 17, 2013

U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Science space subcommittee, is expected to introduce an amendment to the NASA authorization bill July 18 calling for a commission to consider closing NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Profile | Todd May, SLS Program Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

by Brian Berger — December 10, 2012

Todd May is not the typical NASA rocket boss. For starters, he never worked on the space shuttle program or any of the agency’s previous, half-hearted attempts to replace it.

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Vanhooser Fills Marshall’s Deputy Director Vacancy

by SpaceNews Editor — December 1, 2012

Teresa Vanhooser has been named deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

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Spotlight | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

by Debra Werner — June 25, 2012

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is spearheading one of the space agency’s most challenging jobs: designing, developing and building the Space Launch System (SLS), a new rocket capable of sending 130 metric tons into deep space.

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NASA Picks Colorado Firm For Marshall Logistics Work

by SpaceNews Staff — January 23, 2012

NASA awarded CH2M Hill Constructors Inc. of Englewood, Colo., a $34 million contract to provide shipping and receiving, motor pool, warehousing and other logistics services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the agency announced Dec. 29.

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Sierra To Wind-tunnel Test Dream Chaser at Marshall

by SpaceNews Staff — December 19, 2011

Sierra Nevada Space Systems will wind-tunnel test its Dream Chaser orbital crew vehicle at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., under a Space Act Agreement NASA announced Dec. 14.

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Jody Singer, SLS Deputy Program Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

by Dan Leone — October 1, 2011

NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) has extensive heritage in the space shuttle, which was retired over the summer, and in the Ares rocket hardware that was designed under the agency’s relatively short-lived Constellation lunar exploration program.

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Marshall Chief: NASA’s Economic Impact in Alabama was $2.8B in 2011 [The Huntsville Times]

by The Huntsville Times — October 1, 2011

How much does NASA mean to Alabama? Nearly $3 billion, according to Gene Goldman, acting director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

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Bolden Details Trip to China During Marshall Visit

by Amy Svitak — November 19, 2010

WASHINGTON — U.S.-Chinese cooperation in human spaceflight, while not necessary for either country to succeed in its endeavors, could yield mutually beneficial results, according to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

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Marshall Ponders Debris Tracking Demo Satellite

by Turner Brinton — October 22, 2010

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is gathering information for the possible development of a demonstration satellite to track pieces of orbital debris that are too small to be seen by current systems but still pose a threat to operating spacecraft.

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NASA Extends EG&G’s Marshall Support Pact

by SpaceNews Staff — June 28, 2010

NASA awarded EG&G Technical Services of Austin, Texas, a one-year contract extension worth $40.6 million to continue providing facilities operations and maintenance support at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., NASA announced June 23.

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InfoPro Gets $40M Added to Marshall Support Contract

by SpaceNews Staff — March 8, 2010

Huntsville, Ala.-based InfoPro Corp. received a $40 million contract modification March 1 from NASA to continue providing engineering technician and trade support services to the Marshall Space Flight Center. The award includes up to $7.9 million for mission services and $32.2 million for additional support services that Marshall can order from InfoPro under the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity portion of the contract.

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NASA Announces Changes at Marshall and Stennis

by Amy Klamper — March 1, 2010

WASHINGTON — Patrick Scheuermann will take over as director of NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., replacing Arthur E. “Gene” Goldman effective immediately, according to a March 1 agency news release. Goldman, who has served at Stennis since November 2008, will assume the deputy director slot at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., according to the release.

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NASA Extends Bastion’s Marshall Support Contract

by SpaceNews Staff — February 8, 2010

NASA said Feb. 3 it will exercise a second one-year option with Houston-based Bastion Technologies Inc. to continue to support the U.S. space agency’s Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.