Big Science, Big Rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 3 p.m.

b'Mat Kaplan\\u2019s Huntsville, Alabama trip wraps up with a tour of the historic and history-making Marshall Space Flight Center. Join him at the control center for research underway on the International Space Station, under a tent where a critical component of the Space Launch System rocket is getting finishing touches, in a conversation about the Fermi spacecraft\\u2019s search for the universe\\u2019s biggest explosions, and with the Center\\u2019s Associate Director for Technical efforts. Then wrap up with Bruce Betts and the anniversaries of one fictional and one factual explorer of deep space. Learn and hear more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0905-2018-marshall-center.html'