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Another piece of NASA’s mega moon spaceship out

Another piece of NASA’s mega moon spaceship out

Technology
Teams moved the cone-shaped launch car phase adapter out of NASA Marshall's Building 4708 to the company's Pegasus barge on August 21. The barge will transport the adapter initially to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, where it will get extra SLS hardware for future Artemis objectives, and after that take a trip to NASA Kennedy. In Florida, groups with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems will prepare the adapter for stacking and launch. NASA/Brandon Hancock Even while NASA is dealing with Boeing's brand-new crewed Starliner spacecraft, it is continuing deal with another crucial piece of area facilities: its Space Launch System, or SLS rocket that is developed to bring astronauts to the moon and beyond. Parts of the brand-new rocket are getting to th...
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A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

Science and Nature
Editor's Note: NASA and partners scrubbed the very first launch effort of the FURST Sounding Rocket Mission on Aug. 11 due to concerns with the cooling systems. This story will be upgraded as quickly as the next launch effort is identified. By Jessica Barnett From Earth, one may be lured to see the Sun as a special celestial item like no other, as it's the star our home world orbits and the one our world counts on a lot of for heat and light. If you took an action back and compared the Sun to the other stars NASA has studied over the years, how would it compare? Would it still be so special? The Full-sun Ultraviolet Rocket SpecTrograph (FURST) intends to respond to those concerns when it introduces aboard a Black Brant IX sounding rocket Aug. 11 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. ...
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