NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center leads the nuclear thermal propulsion work included in the fiscal year 2020 spending bill.

Building 4670 at NASA Marshall was previously used as a test stand for engines for the Saturn V and the space shuttle.

Blue Origin and NASA Marshall signed a Space Act Agreement in July 2018 to cover suitability analysis and preliminary facility preparations for potential use of the test stand.

Blue Origin is working on an agreement with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to take over Building 4670 for acceptance testing of the BE-3U and BE-4 engines.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is participating in the design of Spyder’s second, third, and fourth stages under a Tipping Point technology development contract awarded to UP Aerospace in 2015.

Jim Bridenstine visited the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on 2018-08-13 and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on 2018-08-15 as part of a series of regional NASA facility appearances.

H.R. 5345 establishes a sense of Congress that NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center be considered the lead center for non-military rocket propulsion research in the United States.

H.R. 5345 directs NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to pursue interagency coordination, collaborate with industry, and evaluate and recommend specific rocket propulsion technologies for further development while authorizing no new funding.