Vertical Assembly Center VAC Cells
Cleaning and Welding cells inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
Cleaning Cell at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
Looking down into the massive cleaning cell inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
The massive washing facility is used to wash the insides of the Space Launch System(SLS) fuel tanks. The SLS rocket will be the world’s largest rocket ever built.
Liquid Oxygen Tank at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
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.
Verticle Assembly Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
Looking down from the top of the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
NASA Vertical Assembly Center, Michoud
The large Space Launch System print on the wall was placed there to show what is being built in this room.
Vertical Assembly Center stairs
Stairway inside the vertical assembly center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility where the Artemis spacecraft is being built.
NASA Vertical Assembly Center (VAC) , Michoud Assembly Facility
Inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
NASA’s welding tool, the worlds largest
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.