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Pence To Visit NASA’s Marshall Center

By Marc Selinger

Monday, September 25th, 2017

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Pence To Visit NASA’s Marshall Center

Artist's illustration of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Dynamic Concepts performs structural dynamics analysis for the SLS. Photo: NASA.

Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump’s point man for space, was scheduled to visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., late Sept. 25 to receive an update on the agency’s efforts to send astronauts to deep space.Pence was expected to see an engine section test for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. Boeing [BA] is developing the core stage, which will have four Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] RS-25 engines. NASA plans to begin flight-testing…

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