Welcome to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Developing new technologies and maturing proven systems are at
the core of how Marshall is powering the future of space exploration.
Marshall's test area is critical for ensuring engines, engine components,
thrusters and custom designed test fixtures can withstand
the extreme forces of launch ascent on flights and travel in space.
Our test area capabilities are also used by NASA partners to mature, innovative
technologies developed by American industry to support space exploration.
These test areas were invaluable when analyzing hardware
for the space launch system.
Rocket managed by Marshall
We built a new state of the art stands to test the liquid hydrogen
tank and liquid oxygen tank for the art of its missions.
Our in-house work to assemble and apply thermal foam protection
to the space launch system.
Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter is just one example of how
our facilities and engineering skills can support current
and future NASA needs Marshall Facilities and the people that work in them
are supporting technologies such as in-space storage
and transfer of cryogenic propellants used for deep space travel transits.
Systems for getting to and off
Mars, and lunar systems for traveling, working and staying on the moon.
We are using the knowledge we've gained from our Lunar Lander TestBed
programs as we work with multiple industry partners
to design, develop, test and deliver human rated lunar landers.
Marshall leads the Human Landing System Program,
which will return American astronauts to the moon under Artemus.
Not only is Marshall integral in landing humans back on the moon,
we are also maturing approaches for Artemus Basecamp,
surface habitats and a Mars transit habitat
to support surface operations on the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.
Years of work developing environmental control
and life support systems for the International Space Station
has prepared us for building the systems needed for our next Great Leap
living and working on the moon and eventually Mars.
Living and working on the moon.
And one day Mars will require us to use
the lessons we've learned from the International Space Station.
The Payload Operations Integration Center Marshall supports the space station.
24 hours a day.
365 days a year, coordinating all scientific experiments on the orbiting
laboratory, hardware design built and managed by Marshall,
such as the four bed CO2 scrubber, provide valuable data
and state of the art support system capabilities to help future explorers
breathe easier on the moon and future long duration missions.
Going back to the moon
and onto Mars requires innovative solutions to many challenges.
How do we repair tools that have been broken on Mars?
Is there a way we can manufacture large structures in space?
Engineers and scientists at Marshall's advanced and additive manufacturing
facility are doing work to answer those questions and many more.
Figuring out solutions to challenges is what we do best at Marshall.
Nowhere is that better demonstrated than with our unique expertise in space
nuclear technologies.
This work comes to life in our nuclear thermal lab
with testing of concept designs, fuel material developments, and manufacturing
techniques that are critical
for deep space exploration and sending the first humans to Mars.
Deep space exploration also requires powerful
spacecraft satellites and in space observatories.
Marshall's work with developing X-ray mirrors and our optics lab
has resulted in developing mirrors for the James Webb telescope.
And Imaging X-ray Telemetry Explorer.
Turning our attention from the cosmos to our own planet's
atmosphere is a natural transition for the scientists at Marshall.
Programs like severe use, earth science, satellite data
to help countries across the globe respond to challenges like food security,
water resources, climate change, and natural disasters.
While other work through projects like sports
allow our scientific observations to have a regional impact to improve short
term weather forecasts from taking humans farther into space than ever before,
to developing technologies like 3D printing and additive manufacturing
and nuclear propulsion, to studying climate change and weather patterns
Marshall has the facilities and capabilities that will continue
to allow NASA and our partners to explore space,
make life better on Earth, and develop groundbreaking technologies.