Marshall Space Flight Center was the featured topic of last night's Live Chat. 66 were in attendance to hear Marshall's Scott Anderson talk about the history and mission of the center. Located in northern Alabama on the grounds of the Redstone Arsenal, Marshall is NASA's premier center for the development of rocket boosters. Launch vehicles for America's first satellite, first astronaut, and first man to the moon were all designed and tested at Marshall.
Marshall is also home to the research command center for the International Space Station. While launch control is at Kennedy and mission control is in Houston, this is where the science takes place (actually, it takes place in space, but here is where the results come). It also has the capability of acting as mission control should severe weather strike Houston.
Find out more by accessing the archive of the chat this weekend in the Live Chat archive off the Discover page, or on Monday in the INSPIRE Archive on the Home Page.
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