News Archive / Tagged: Marshall Space Flight Center

• The People of Artemis: Chris Cianciola, NASA Space Launch System deputy manager

  Scott JohnsonApril 23rd, 2022

  During the rollout of NASA's Artemis 1 Space Launch System moon rocket, Spaceflight Insider had the opportunity to speak with the SLS deputy manager.

• SLS Program Manager provides update on Artemis I

  Scott JohnsonMarch 11th, 2022

  NASA is working toward a March 17 rollout of its Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly building in Florida for an early-April wet dress rehearsal at nearby Launch Complex 39B in anticipation of a summer 2022 launch.

• Boeing tests all-composite cryogenic propellant tank

  Theresa CrossFebruary 23rd, 2022

  At the end of 2021, Boeing completed a series of tests on a “large, fully-composite, linerless cryogenic tank” at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama.

• Our spaceflight heritage: A conversation with Fred Haise

  Scott JohnsonDecember 24th, 2021

  Spaceflight Insider spoke with Fred Haise after a ceremony commemorating the 2020 designation of the A-1 Test Stand after the Apollo 13 astronaut.

• NASA leadership visits Marshall Space Flight Center

  Scott JohnsonDecember 6th, 2021

  NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited the Marshall Space Flight Center for an update on the center's contribution to the nation's space program.

• COVID-19 concerns see all NASA centers elevated to Response Framework Stage 3

  Matt HaskellMarch 18th, 2020

  Throughout the world, a novel coronavirus disease (known formally as COVID-19) has begun to take hold and is quickly bringing changes to the world as we know it.

• Blue Origin upgrading NASA test stand

  Patrick AttwellMay 13th, 2019

  Blue Origin and NASA announced an agreement that would allow the company to test two of its new rocket engines in Alabama.

• SLS liquid hydrogen tank test article placed on test stand

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 18th, 2019

  A 149-foot-tall test article for the Space Launch System's liquid hydrogen tank was loaded onto a test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

• Acting Administrator talks FY2019 NASA budget at Marshall

  Scott JohnsonFebruary 14th, 2018

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- On Monday, February 12, the Trump administration released its 2019 fiscal year (FY19) budget request. NASA, via a presentation by its Acting Administrator, Robert Lightfoot, at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) highlighted NASA portions of the request.

• Insider Exclusive: America’s ‘Booster Belt’ Part Three (conclusion) – Marshall

  Jason RhianNovember 24th, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- We were headed out to the final stop of our tour of Marshall Space Flight Center where we would be shown the test stands that are being prepared to validate the various components that will comprise NASA's new crew-rated rocket - the Space Launch System.

• Insider Exclusive: America’s ‘Booster Belt’ Part Three (continued) – Marshall

  Jason RhianNovember 23rd, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- SpaceFlight Insider continued its tour of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center with a stop to speak with Heather Haney, NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) Stages Element Test Manager. She detailed the work being done to ready the massive new rocket's core stage ready for its inaugural flight.

• Insider Exclusive: America’s ‘Booster Belt’ Part Three – Marshall

  Jason RhianNovember 22nd, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Named after General of the Army George Marshall, Marshall Space Flight Center is where NASA develops its rocket propulsion and other space flight systems. Used during the heady days of Apollo to check out the powerful F-1 engines used on the Saturn V Moon rockets, the site was later utilized to start the Space Shuttles' 30 year legacy. We wondered though, would the folks who work for NASA be the same as those we had encountered earlier on our tour?

• Major core stage hardware completed for first SLS flight

  Heather SmithOctober 4th, 2017

  NASA has completed major work for all five parts of the core stage for the first flight of the massive Space Launch System (SLS). Additionally, manufacturing has been completed for all four core stage test articles with evaluation underway on the engine section structural test article at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

• U.S. VP Pence continues tour of NASA facilities with stop to Marshall Space Flight Center

  Jason RhianSeptember 26th, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — After stops at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence toured the space agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The visit marked a first in terms of the White House and provided the agency with another opportunity to highlight not only its on-orbit capabilities but also its plans for crewed deep space missions.

• Super Guppy transports SLS test hardware from Marshall

  Scott JohnsonJuly 14th, 2017

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA's Super Guppy aircraft made an appearance in Huntsville earlier this week at the Redstone Arsenal airfield, adjacent to the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The aircraft was in town to retrieve the MSFC-manufactured Space Launch System Orion Stage Adapter structural test article and transport the hardware to Lockheed Martin's facilities in Colorado.