NASA Michoud Assembly Facility Archives

Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

Welding Tool

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, SLSNasa, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

Indide the Verticle Assembly Center (VAC) at NASA Michoud where the SLS was being welded.

NASA Vertical Assembly Center, Michoud

City, Factory, Lousiana, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Indide the Verticle Assembly Center (VAC) at NASA Michoud where the SLS was being welded.

Vertical Assembly Center stairs

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Stairway inside the VAC.

The large Space Launch System print on the wall was placed there to show what is being built in this room.

NASA Vertical Assembly Center, Michoud

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

The large Space Launch System print on the wall was placed there to show what is being built in this room.

Space Robots

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

The Forward Skirt is part of NASA’s Space Launch System. 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. It will be used in Exploration Mission-1, launching from the Kennedy Space Center in June 2020. #5 in the following NASA Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.htmlSpace Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

SLS Forward Skirt

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

The Forward Skirt is part of NASA’s Space Launch System. 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. It will be used in Exploration Mission-1, launching from the Kennedy Space Center in June 2020.

#5 in the following NASA Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.html
Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Space hardware that will launch with Artemis I on Monday August 29th, 2022. The mission is the first planned launch of the Artemis space program that hopes to bring people back to the moon.

SA Cone Spacecraft Adapter Cone

EM1, Exploration Mission, Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Space hardware that will launch with Artemis I on Monday August 29th, 2022. The mission is the first planned launch of the Artemis space program that hopes to bring people back to the moon.

Verticle Assembly Center

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Looking down from the top of the VAC.

The wall of missions

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

A wall with all the previous NASA missions shown.

NASA’s Pegasus Barge

Barge, Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Barge, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Pegasus Barge, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, Space Launch System, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

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 crew module being built for Artemis II.

Crew Module, Exploration Mission 2

Artemis II, Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

The crew module being built for Artemis II.

Cleaning Cell

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

Looking down into the massive cleaning cell inside NASA’s Vertical Assembly Center at the Michoud rocket factory. The massive washing facility is used to wash the insides of the Space Launch System(SLS) fuel tanks. The SLS rocket will be the worlds largest rocket ever built.

The interior of the Space Launch System fuel tank, exterior is the previous photo. NASA Core Stage Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.htmlSpace Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

SLS Fuel Tank Interior

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

The interior of the Space Launch System fuel tank, exterior is the previous photo.

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

The inside of a Space Launch System barrel used for the liquid hydrogen tank. It’s made of AI 2219, an aerospace aluminum alloy.More Info: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

SLS Barrel interior

Factory, Michoud, Nasa, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Rocket, Rocket Factory, SLS, Space, USA, Vac, Vertical Assembly / August 17, 2018

The inside of a Space Launch System barrel used for the liquid hydrogen tank. It’s made of AI 2219, an aerospace aluminum alloy.

More Info: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/