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The Marshall Star Archive

The Marshall Star is published online every Wednesday by the Office of Communications at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. For earlier editions, please send email to: Marshall.Star@msfc.nasa.gov.

2021 Marshall Star Year-In-Review

January 5, 2022

A man in a white suit stands in front of the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors

January 2022

Cassiopeia A supernova remnant

January 12

Rocket Booster Motors Are Being Built for Artemis IV

January 19

June Malone, right, hikes the Grand Canyon with her daughter Madison in 2018.

January 26

February 2022

Astronaut Alexander Gerst working in glovebox

February 2

Dayna and Carl Ise.

February 9

Astronaut Nicole Mann.

February 16

In May 1966, Civil rights leader and the director of the National Urban League, Whitney Young Jr. visits the Marshall Center.

February 23

March 2022

A team competes in the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. The 2022 event will be held virtually.

March 2

Angie Jackman.

March 9

NASA’s integrated Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission..

March 16

The rollout continues after nightfall. The crawler-transporter reached the launch pad at 3:15 a.m. March 18.

March 23

A sunrise view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 21, 2022. The SLS and Orion atop the mobile launcher were transported to the pad on crawler-transporter 2 for a prelaunch test called a wet dress rehearsal. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

March 30

April 2022

April 6

Marissa Garcia in front of machinery she's working with.

April 13

Student Launch teams return to Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, for in-person competition Saturday, April 23.

April 20

Following two years of virtual events, high school and college teams compete in NASA’s Student Launch rocketry competition April 23.

April 27

May 2022

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez team members try out their rover designed for NASA’s 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

May 4

May 11

Gregory Robinson will give a presentation as part of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Mission Success is in Our Hands virtual lecture series.

May 18

Deborah Crane.

May 25

June 2022

Marshall Associate Director Rae Ann Meyer

June 1

Team members from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte carry their rocket to the launch area near Marshall on April 23.

June 8

Members of the Huntsville Community Drumline add a festive beat to Marshall’s Juneteenth festival.

June 15

NASA app welcomes Space Launch System augmented reality model!

June 22

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Kayla Barron works with the Veggie PONDS space agriculture experiment that explores how to grow fresh food during long-term spaceflight missions.

June 29

July 2022

Nylana Murphy secured two internships in the additive manufacturing research lab at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

July 6

NASA astronaut Victor Glover works with a payload inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station in 2021.

July 13

The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship approaches the space station during an orbital sunrise above the Pacific Ocean.

July 20

Dr. Ruth Jones, associate manager for Marshall’s Human Exploration Development & Operations Office.

July 27

August 2022

LaBreesha Batey

August 3

John Blevins, EGS

August 10

NASA Pegasus barge crew members aboard Pegasus at Stennis Space Center on Aug. 9.

August 17

Orion Stage Adapter (OSA)

August 24

Guests visit the Space Launch System exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

August 31

September 2022

Two images of Jupiter

September 7

Hurricane Danielle is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbits above the northern Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 4.

September 14

Team members at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility participate in an Artemis I launch party Aug. 29

September 21

DART team celebrating

September 28

October 2022

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 11 a.m. CDT on Oct. 5.

October 5

The student team from the Colégio Santa Terezinha, São Gonçalo, Brazil, celebrates during the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

October 12

October 19

Victoria Garcia, a systems integration team lead at Marshall, signs “engineering” in honor of her chosen career.

October 26

November 2022

Attendees at Marshall Space Flight Center's Hispanic Heritage Month Food Truck Fiesta dance as they enjoy music at the Oct. 26 event at the Food Truck Corral.

November 2

Block 1B crew configuration of NASA’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket

November 9

November 16

Lori Schultz, a research scientist, at her desk at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

November 23

Helen Blue Parache, a data scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, attends a workshop in Peru for NASA’s SERVIR.

November 30

December 2022

For the first time in three years, team members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center gathered Dec. 6 in to celebrate the season with a holiday reception.

December 7

At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. Orion will be recovered by NASA’s Landing and Recovery team, U.S. Navy and Department of Defense partners aboard the USS Portland.

December 14

A young man in a suit stands in front of a presentation at the Von Braun Symposium.

December 21

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