![]() ![]() Today, Marshall is home to the Payload Operations Control Center, the “science mission control” for the International Space Station. Marshall oversaw the production of the American modules for the International Space Station, and the Skylab space station of the 1970s. Marshall played a key role in the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and also led the development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Marshall also provides technical expertise for NASA’s commercial crew program, under which companies like Boeing and SpaceX will soon begin transporting astronauts to the International Space Station. Today, Marshall is working on America’s next great rocket – the Space Launch System that will return astronauts to the moon and eventually pave the way to Mars. The Saturn rockets that carried men to the moon were developed at Marshall Space Flight Center, as were the propulsion systems for the Space Shuttles that flew for over 30 years. If you’re not familiar with Huntsville’s own NASA center, here’s a beginner’s guide – if you’ve seen a picture of astronauts launching on an American rocket, if you’ve seen a mind-blowing picture of deep space, or if you’ve seen American astronauts working inside a space station, odds are you were seeing Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center at work. This year marks a special anniversary for that last combination – as of 2020, Huntsville and rockets have been going together at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for 60 years! ![]()
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