NASA Michoud Assembly Facility Space Tool
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.
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.
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.
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/
The “Wall of Missions” at NASA 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.
Inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
Stairway inside the vertical assembly center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility where the Artemis spacecraft is being built.
Indide the Verticle Assembly Center (VAC) at NASA Michoud where Space Launch System rocket and Artemis is being built.
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. 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
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 NASA logo on the side of Michoud Assembly Facility where the Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis is being built.