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One exhibit at the Marshall Space Flight Center’s Davidson Center for Space Exploration is the Apollo 16 Command Module “Casper.” This aging spacecraft is more poignant this week as the nation mourns the loss of Ken Mattingly, the astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home. He died at the age of 87. Mattingly flew in that vehicle on the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission in 1972.
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On Sunday, July 2, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center will launch a free summer activity celebrating 50 years since the launch of Skylab. This latest session is called “Living in Space” and discusses long-duration living in space and microgravity and its effects on human’s body.
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The U.S. Space Agency issued a press release on how it assisted in the development of the missing submersible “Titan” that lost contact with the surface after starting last Sunday’s dive to explore the wreckage of the passenger ship Titanic.
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More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the culminating event for the agency’s annual Student Launch challenge.
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The Air Force announced the permanent location for many more U.S. Space Force units — and none of them are in Huntsville. This suggests the service may be moving ahead with at least part of the design it originally sought for the new force before it became entangled in politics.
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The U.S. Space Program today is marking fifty years since the launch of Skylab, NASA’s first attempt at a space station in low Earth orbit. Alabama played a key role in its development.
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Alabama is leading NASA in new research on nuclear propulsion. The Space Nuclear Propulsion Project at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is developing engines to take humans and large amounts of cargo into deep space
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Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi test fired a redesigned engine for the Artemis Moon rocket, managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
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NASA is going over data from its Orion crew capsule before declaring the mission a success. The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is managing the spacecraft and the new rocket that launched it to Earth orbit.
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NASA is already looking ahead to the next chapter in its plan to send astronauts back to the Moon. The agency’s Orion crew capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after its mission on autopilot around the moon and back.