Today was the #StateOfNASA event at NASA centers across America. I was fortunate to get to attend the #NASASocial that covered the presentation and then touring the facility. Great things are going on at Stennis and their future looks bright.

Workers install cables to a steel girder for an overhead crane, in the South VAB of the NASA Chris A. Hadfield Rocket Factory.

Note the polished floors!

Dawn of April 4, second attempt at Wet Dress Rehearsal

Northrop Grumman SRB testing smoke plume in Promontory, Utah as seen south from Tooele, Utah.

Today was the #StateOfNASA event at NASA centers across America. I was fortunate to get to attend the #NASASocial that covered the presentation and then touring the facility. Great things are going on at Stennis and their future looks bright.

The Artemis I aft skirts for the NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s twin solid rocket boosters are moved along the road to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 10, 2020. In the background is the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The aft skirts were refurbished by Northrop Grumman. They house the thrust vector control system, which controls 70 percent of the steering during initial ascent of the SLS rocket. The aft skirts will remain in the RPSF until ready for stacking with the forward and aft parts of the boosters on the mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the VAB. Through the Artemis Program, NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.

Today was the #StateOfNASA event at NASA centers across America. I was fortunate to get to attend the #NASASocial that covered the presentation and then touring the facility. Great things are going on at Stennis and their future looks bright.

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:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout

A new launch tower for the upcoming Space Launch System (SLS) is now mounted to one of the mobile launch pads. It will use one of the large crawlers to be move to the launch site

Bild: NASA