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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus Feb. 22, at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the rocket's massive core stage scheduled for delivery to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for testing. Engineers at Marshall will push, pull and bend the intertank with millions of pounds of force to ensure the hardware can withstand the forces of launch and ascent. The flight version of the intertank will connect the core stage's two colossal fuel tanks, serve as the upper-connection point for the two solid rocket boosters and house the avionics and electronics that will serve as the "brains" of the rocket. Pegasus, originally used during the Space Shuttle Program, has been redesigned and extended to accommodate the SLS rocket's massive, 212-foot-long core stage -- the backbone of the rocket. The 310-foot-long barge will ferry the flight core stage from Michoud to other NASA centers for tests and launch. (NASA/Michoud/Steven Seipel)
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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Opening Ceremony of the new blue vertical welder in the South Vertical Assembly Building of the Chris Hadfield factory
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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This is part of the friction stir welding machine that build the 27.5’ wide dome that makes up the SLS rocket core stage.
It holds over half a million gallons of cryogenic liquid fuel (LH2 & LOX)
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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Edited NASA PR image of the SLS and Orion for the Artemis 1 mission.
Original caption: Standing atop the mobile launcher, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrive at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 18, 2022. The Artemis I stack was carried from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad – a 4.2-mile journey that took nearly 11 hours to complete – by the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 for a wet dress rehearsal ahead of the uncrewed launch. Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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The last time humans flew to the Moon was December, 1972 - 53 years ago. This (Saturday) morning, NASA took one step closer to reseting that clock.
At 7am (ET), the Mobile Launcher emerged from the the VAB and the Artemis II SLS and Orion spacecraft began the trip to LC-39B.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman was on hand to introduce the Artemis II crew, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, heroes all.
These are some seriously cool astronauts, all well-prepared and looking forward to an incredible journey to the Moon.
One postscript: Administrator Isaacman did a great job at the podium, keeping the focus on the astronauts and the thousands of people supporting the mission; and the astronauts seem to genuinely respect him and his spaceflight experience.
The SLS Mars Rocket (set to launch in 2020!) made of Lego in Sheffield's Crucible theatre!
Bricktropolis returns to Sheffield for a second year, this time with a space theme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing!
Lego models of Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, even C3PO, as well as the Saturn V rocket, the Lunar Lander and Mars Curiosity Rover can all be seen, and more!, in a new trail across Sheffield city centre, August 2019.
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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An overhead crane is retracted, so workers can connect cables and ropes to the rocket tank. The floor is so polished, you can see your reflection.
Photo taken in the South VAB of the NASA Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory.
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen together, which combust at temperatures over 6,000 degrees...
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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NASA engineers load a structural test version of the Orion Stage Adapter for NASA's Space Launch System onto NASA’s Super Guppy Aircraft at the Redstone Arsenal Airfield in Huntsville, Alabama, for delivery to Lockheed Martin in Denver. The OSA connects NASA's Orion spacecraft to the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion System, which will give the spacecraft its big, in-space boost to fly around the moon in its first integrated flight with SLS. Built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the OSA was used in integrated structural testing for the top of the SLS rocket and will be used in similar testing with Orion at Lockheed. The Guppy has a cargo compartment that is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long and can carry up to 24 tons. The aircraft has a unique hinged nose that can open 110 degrees, allowing large pieces of cargo to be loaded and unloaded from the front.
Image credits: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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An Overhead crane hoists the Orion spacecraft to another manufacturing area of the NASA Chris Hadfield Rocket Factory
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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The SLS Mars Rocket (set to launch in 2020!) made of Lego in Sheffield's Crucible theatre!
Bricktropolis returns to Sheffield for a second year, this time with a space theme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing!
Lego models of Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, even C3PO, as well as the Saturn V rocket, the Lunar Lander and Mars Curiosity Rover can all be seen, and more!, in a new trail across Sheffield city centre, August 2019.
NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
Image: NASA/Emmett Given
To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html
For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology
For more information about NEA Scout, visit:
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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These official NASA photographs are being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photographs. The photographs may not be used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement by NASA. All Images used must be credited. For information on usage rights, click here.
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Danny Nowlin
NASA engineers load a structural test version of the Orion Stage Adapter for NASA's Space Launch System onto NASA’s Super Guppy Aircraft at the Redstone Arsenal Airfield in Huntsville, Alabama, for delivery to Lockheed Martin in Denver. The OSA connects NASA's Orion spacecraft to the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion System, which will give the spacecraft its big, in-space boost to fly around the moon in its first integrated flight with SLS. Built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the OSA was used in integrated structural testing for the top of the SLS rocket and will be used in similar testing with Orion at Lockheed. The Guppy has a cargo compartment that is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long and can carry up to 24 tons. The aircraft has a unique hinged nose that can open 110 degrees, allowing large pieces of cargo to be loaded and unloaded from the front.
Image credits: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1. The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
Image: NASA/Emmett Given
To learn more about NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/aes/index.html
For more information about Secondary Payloads, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology
For more information about NEA Scout, visit:
The first crewed Artemis flight marks a key step toward long‑term return to the Moon and future missions to Mars.
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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Crop from the Orion Flight Test 1 Press Kit from NASA of an Orion spacecraft being launched on an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket (probably in 2018 or so).
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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Standing atop the mobile launcher, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft can be seen at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 18, 2022. The Artemis I stack was carried from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad – a 4.2-mile journey that took nearly 11 hours to complete – by the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 for a wet dress rehearsal ahead of the uncrewed launch. Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
More than 7,000 people attended NASA Marshall Space Center and Downtown Huntsville, Inc.’s third annual celebration of NASA and the community June 18. This year, the event moved to Huntsville’s Big Spring Park, becoming ‘NASA in the Park.’ The celebration featured fun for all ages, live music performed by Marshall team members and a special appearance by NASA astronaut Don Thomas.
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