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J-2X Engine and New Turbo Pump Exhaust Port Cover
The J-2X engine before installation at the Stennis Space Center.
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Finding the Origins of Kepler Supernova Remnant
A new study has used Chandra X-ray Observatory data to identify what triggered the famous Kepler supernova explosion.
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POIC Celebrates 12th Anniversary
NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) is celebrating 12 years of science support for the International Space Station.
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Probing Extreme Matter Via Neutron Stars
New results from Chandra and other X-ray telescopes have provided clues about the relation between the radius of a neutron star and its mass.
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J-2X Engine 'Goes the Distance' at Stennis
J-2X rocket engine testing continues at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi with the second in a series of tests conducted on Feb. 27.
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NASA Chief Tours Marshall 3D Rapid Prototyping Facility
On Feb. 22, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured a Marshall Center rapid-prototyping facility critical to building the nation's next rocket.
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Kouveliotou Named Senior Scientist
Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou has been named senior scientist for high energy astrophysics within the Science and Technology Office at the Marshall Center.
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New Round of J-2X Testing Kicks Off at Stennis
NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at Stennis Space Center.
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Rare Explosion May Have Created Youngest Black Hole
New data from Chandra suggests a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.
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J-2X Engine Prepares for Testing at Stennis
A J-2X engine, right, is being transported to the A-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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SLS Booster Avionics Get a Work Out
NASA has conducted the second Flight Control Test of solid rocket booster avionics, part of the first two test flights of the Space Launch System.
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Chandra Puts Stellar Effervescence on Display
Chandra spies on superbubbles -- huge cavities in the gas clouds around massive stars, carved by supernova winds and shock waves.
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World's Most Powerful Engine Blazes New Path
To help develop the nation's future heavy lift rocket, NASA resurrected the mighty F1 -- the world's most powerful rocket engine ever flown.
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'Hi-C' Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona
NASA optics engineering expertise is allowing solar scientists to see into the sun's corona in unprecedented detail.
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Saturn V F-1 Gas Generator Hot-fire Test
On Jan. 10, 2013, the Saturn V F-1 gas generator completed a 20-second hot-fire test. Engineers are completing a series of tests at Test Stand 116 located in the East Test Area at NASA's Marshall Spac...
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NASA Marshall Scientist Receives Heineman Prize
Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Dannie Heineman prize in astrophysics.
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NASA Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies
NASA advanced propulsion researchers are a step closer to safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations.
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Vela Pulsar
A jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotating neutron star may provide new insight into the nature of some of the densest matter in the universe.
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Friction Stir Weld for SLS
Tim Livengood confirms the setup on a friction stir weld test fixture at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in support of the agency's Space Launch System.
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Monster Black Holes
A large elliptical galaxy at the center of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-19, part of a survey of 18 of the biggest black holes in the universe.