Watch technicians build the Advanced Upper Stage of the NASA moon rocket, or SLS (Space Launch System), at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. More specifically, the fifth of seven weld confidence articles that engineers are manufacturing for the evolved SLS Block 1B configuration of the SLS rocket.
What are weld confidence articles? Engineers use these to verify welding procedures, interfaces between the tooling / hardware, and structural integrity of the welds. The dome-like liquid oxygen tank weld confidence article was first welded to its structural ring at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, using friction stir welding tooling.
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NASA is working to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, and commercial human landing systems. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single mission,” said the agency.
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