Lake Harriet Bandshell, Minneapolis
Lake Harriet Park in Minneapolis.
Inside the Vertical Weld Center. The friction-stir-weld tool for wet and dry structures on the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. It will weld barrel panels together to produce whole barrels for the two pressurized tanks, the intertank, the forward skirt and the aft engine section.
More Info: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/
Inside the massive NASA Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans where the Space Launch System is being built.
The interior of the Space Launch System (SLS) fuel tank at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
NASA Core Stage Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.html
Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html
A Liquid Oxygen tank being worked on inside Cell A at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. It’s part of the Space Launch System Core Stage. The tank will hold 195,000 gallons of liquid oxygen cooled to -297 degrees Fahrenheit.
Looking down from the top of the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
Looking down from the top of NASA’s 170ft space tool that will weld together barrels, domes and tanks for the Space Launch System (SLS) at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
Manufacturing robots at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/
The large Space Launch System print on the wall was placed there to show what is being built in this room.
The NASA logo on the side of Michoud Assembly Facility where the Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis is being built.
Nasa’s Pegasus barge that will carry fuel tanks for the Space Launch System to other NASA facilities for testing and launches.
More Info:
NASA Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/barge-pegasus-infographic
Pegasus Barge Fact Sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_pegasus_fact_sheet_508_final_04212017.pdf
The Forward Skirt is part of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Housing flight computers, cameras and avionics it is pretty much the brain of the rocket. This photo was taken a couple weeks after it’s final assembly was completed at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
Indide the Verticle Assembly Center (VAC) at NASA Michoud where Space Launch System rocket and Artemis is being built.
Stairway inside the vertical assembly center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility where the Artemis spacecraft is being built.
Inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
The Vertical Weld Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility is a friction-stir-weld tool for wet and dry structures on the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. It will weld barrel panels together to produce whole barrels for the two pressurized tanks, the intertank, the forward skirt and the aft engine section.
The “Wall of Missions” at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
A welding tool inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility where the Space Launch System(SLS) is being built.
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/
NASA’s welding tool, one of the world’s largest. The massive tool was designed and built to weld together the domes, rings, and barrels that make up the core stage pieces of the Space Launch System (SLS). The size of this thing can’t be described or shown in a photo.
Nasa’s Pegasus barge that will carry fuel tanks for the Space Launch System to other NASA facilities for testing and launches.
More Info:
NASA Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/barge-pegasus-infographic
Pegasus Barge Fact Sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_pegasus_fact_sheet_508_final_04212017.pdf