2020 State of NASA event at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL was a fabulous experience. It was interesting to see all the different areas that make up space exploration and reiterates there are so many roles that make everything possible. The astronaut role may seem to be the star of the show, but for every astronaut, tens of thousands of people in every industry make that possible.
Here are a few snapshots from that event.
- Our group at the Nuclear Thermal Rocket Element Environmental Simulator
- Associate Center Director Steve Miley gave s an overview on what happens at Marshall
- Some of the avionics for the Space Launch System
- ISS Training Room
- ISS Payload Operations Center. Effectively, Mission Control for the International Space Station
- Lander prototypes
- Lunar Pallet Lander
- Artist rendering of CLPS – Commercial Lunar Payload Services
- Scotty the Starbird and a model of the Space Launch System (SLS)