From making rocket engines roar to analyzing the first 3-D printed parts created on the International Space Station and developing new technologies, 2015 was a year of discovery and progress as the team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, continued advancing critical systems needed for human space exploration to the Red Planet and deeper into the solar system than ever before.
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Learn about the space station from scientists who conduct research and controllers who work in the operations control room at Marshall around the clock, 365 days a year.
The Technology Demonstration Program bridges the gap between proof of concept and experimental testing stage and the final infusion of the technologies into NASA missions.
Marshall developed and manages NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which probes the mysteries of space with unprecedented X-ray images that help to reveal the structure and evolution of the universe
NASA's Centennial Challenges program, managed at Marshall, accelerates innovation through competitions that award citizen inventors, small businesses and academia for technology breakthroughs.