NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

摘要

Founded on July 1, 1960, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL is one of NASA's largest field centers. Marshall engineers designed, built, tested, and helped launch the Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. Marshall developed new rocket engines and tanks for the fleet of space shuttles, built sections of the International Space Station (ISS), and now manages all the science work of the astronauts aboard the ISS from a 24/7 Payload Operations Integration Center. Marshall also manages NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans - the agency's premier site for the manufacture and assembly of large-scale space structures and systems. To enable NASA's human and robotic exploration missions, Marshall maintains a range of design, development, and testing capabilities. For launch vehicles and spacecraft, the Center develops propulsion and life support systems, studies space environment effects, designs advanced avionics and guidance systems, and operates a suite of environmental testing facilities to verify hardware prior to flight.