Mechanical Workshop Interiors

Views of mechanical workshops featuring machinery, tools, and large equipment in various states of operation and maintenance.

Machines for transport and sorting system in a printing shop

interior of storehouse and mechanical workshop with metal lathes and machines

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Machinery at Paper Mill, banbodhan, surat, gujarat, india Copyright: xDuttagupta/DinodiaxPhotox

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Rotation Processing and Surge Facility, an SRB solid segment is being rotated to horizontal for placement on a rail car. The segment is being shipped to Utah for testing. The segment was part of the STS-114 stack. It is the first time actual flight segments that had been stacked for flight in the VAB are being returned to Utah for testing. It will undergo firing, which will enable inspectors to check the viability of the solid and verify the life expectancy for stacked segments.

Paper machine PM4 from 1889, forty metres long and five metres high

Kohleförderung in einem Kohlekraftwerk *** Coal production in a Coal-fired power station 1074706503

Interior View of Orbiter Processing Facility 3

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility, or RPSF, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane lifts NASA locomotive No. 2 off of its trucks to be moved aside, clearing the way for locomotive No. 3 to be raised off its trucks and moved into position atop the trucks previously used by locomotive No. 2. The RPSF was built to support work on the solid rocket used motors during the space shuttle era. The facility had never previously been used for another purpose, but is now free to serve other customers. With rails running into the building's high bay and a pair of heavy-lift cranes positioned overhead, the facility's capabilities were a perfect fit for the NASA Railroad's needs. Railroad managers wanted to trade the wheel and axle assemblies, or trucks, of locomotives No. 2 and No. 3. Locomotive No. 3 was painstakingly restored in recent years by the NASA Railroad team, and handles much of the rail work required at the center in the post-

Machines for transport and sorting system in a printing shop

The engine vertical installer for NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) is inside the Vehicle Assembly at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 25, 2019. The engine installer is being lifted up by crane for transfer to High Bay 3. The engine installer arrived from the manufacturer, Precision Fabrication and Cleaning in Canaveral Groves, Florida. The new ground support equipment will be ready for preflight processing in the event one of the four RS-25 engines on the core stage of the SLS rocket needs to be replaced. During launch of the SLS and Orion spacecraft, the four core stage engines will provide the thrust needed to lift the rocket and Orion spacecraft off Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy for Exploration Mission-1. The uncrewed Orion will travel on a three-week test mission thousands of miles beyond the Moon and back to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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steel coil processing machine inside of steel plant

Preparations are underway to move the Space Launch System Core Stage pathfinder to the north end of the transfer aisle inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2019. A cover, called a spider, will be attached to the top of the pathfinder. With the spider secured in place, a crane will be attached to it to lift the pathfinder into the vertical position. The 212-foot-long core stage pathfinder arrived in NASA's Pegasus Barge at Kennedys Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf on Sept. 27, 2019. The Pegasus Barge made its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The upgraded 310-foot-long barge arrived, ferrying the SLS core stage pathfinder, a full-scale mock-up of the rocket's core stage. It will be used by Exploration Ground Systems and its contractor, Jacobs, to practice offloading, moving and stacking maneuvers, using important ground support equipment to train employees and certify all the equipment works pro

Huge rolls of tinplate in the factory

Sunlit industrial bottling factory with automated machinery at work.

Machinery at the sugar factory in Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Huge rolls of tinplate in the factory

Locomotive Shop Tour, Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Usa

Schmiedewerke Groeditz GmbH

A robot welding in a factory.

Gold mine processing plant equipment is seen from the inside

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, removes the gear box for Pump #1 at the 17th Street Outfall Canal Permanent Canal Closures and Pumps to address corrosion identified on the pump during last years inspections. Once repairs are complete, the pump will be reinstalled at the station to deliver the full 35-year design life requirement.

Liquid steel pouring from the ladle into the casting, casting plant, Salzgitter AG Steel Mill, Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

A construction worker monitors the progress, as a heavy-lift crane lifts the first half of the D-level work platforms, D south, for NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, up from the transfer aisle floor in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The D platform will be installed on the south side of High Bay 3. The D platforms are the seventh of 10 levels of work platforms that will surround and provide access to the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission 1. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to VAB High Bay 3, including installation of the new work platforms, to prepare for NASAs journey to Mars.

machinery and equipment process raw sugar and molasses from sugar cane, bais city, negros island, philippines

Worker using machinery in steel forge

factory equipment for processing and recycling of plastic bottles. PET recycling plant. a plant for recycling bottles

Hispanic worker checking machinery

Automatic Industrial welding robot in a modern factory Automatic Industrial welding robot in a modern factory in operation. Copyright: xZoonar.com/RuslanxOlinchukx 22035593

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA locomotive No. 1 pulls locomotive No. 3 out of the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility, or RPSF, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside, an overhead crane was used to lift NASA locomotive No. 2 off of its trucks and moved aside, so locomotive No. 3 could be raised off its trucks and moved into position atop the trucks previously used by locomotive No. 2. The RPSF was built to support work on the solid rocket used motors during the space shuttle era. The facility had never previously been used for another purpose, but is now free to serve other customers. With rails running into the building's high bay and a pair of heavy-lift cranes positioned overhead, the facility's capabilities were a perfect fit for the NASA Railroad's needs. Railroad managers wanted to trade the wheel and axle assemblies, or trucks, of locomotives No. 2 and No. 3. Locomotive No. 3 was painstakingly restored in recent years by the NASA Railroad team, and handles much of th

STS-133 DISCOBVERY ENGINE-3 REMOVAL IN OPF-3 AND XFERRED TO ENGINE SHOP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians install the piping for a new exhaust system in crawler-transporter 1, or CT-1.Work continues in high bay 3 to upgrade CT-1 as part of its general maintenance. CT-1 could be available to carry commercial launch vehicles to the launch pad. The crawler-transporters were used to carry the mobile launcher platform and space shuttle to Launch Complex 39 for space shuttle launches for 30 years.

Senior businessman in a rubber processing factory

Overhead crane, agricultural machinery, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is ready to lift the Ares I-X upper stage simulator segment 7. The segment will be stacked onto segment 6. The upper stage simulator comprises 11 segments, each approximately 18 feet in diameter, that will be used in the test flight identified as Ares I-X in 2009. The simulator segments will simulate the mass and the outer mold line. The upper stage accounts for nearly one-quarter of the total height of the Ares I. It will take the Ares I on the second phase of its journey from Earth, providing the guidance, navigation and control needed for the second phase of the Ares I ascent flight.

Worker labeling metal in factory

female factory worker produces filters for cars. equipment for the production of filters for cars

A huge paper-making machine in a paper mill.

UTIL DE MONTAJE DE AVION MERCURE. Location: Casa. Sevilla. Seville. SPANIEN.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor a replica shuttle main engine (RSME) as it moves toward the engine well of space shuttle Discovery under the guidance of a Hyster forklift, a specially designed engine installer.The RSME is one of three being installed on Discovery during Space Shuttle Program transition and retirement activities. The replicas are built in the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engine shop at Kennedy to replace the shuttle engines which will be placed in storage to support NASA's Space Launch System, under development. Discovery is being prepared for display at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

Workers holding ppe hard hat and earmuffs in the factory closeup

The Sundwig ironworks (formerly Einsenhuettenwerk) has long since ceased to be a smelting works and is, here on 02.10.1997 in Hemer, an important supplier to the production of cold rolling mills, DEU, Germany, Europe

factory oven for steel

Aircraft mechanic assembling 1/6-segment of pressure bulkhead during airbus production

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Steady progress is made on the installation of new bearings on crawler-transporter 2 in Vehicle Assembly Building High Bay 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Modifications underway on the crawler are designed to ensure its ability to transport launch vehicles currently under development, such as the agencys Space Launch System, to the launch pad. Present modifications represent a redesign and upgrade to the roller bearings and assemblies originally installed on the crawler. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at Kennedy is overseeing the upgrades. For more than 45 years the crawler-transporters were used to transport the mobile launcher platform carrying the Apollo-Saturn V rockets and space shuttles to Launch Pads 39A and 39B.

The Sundwig ironworks (formerly Einsenhuettenwerk) has long since ceased to be a smelting works and is, here on 02.10.1997 in Hemer, an important supplier to the production of cold rolling mills, DEU, Germany, Europe

Machinery in steel forge

On Thursday 8th October 2020, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, visits two defence companies essential to the economic fabric of the Brittany region. The Minister of the Armed Forces first visits SOCARENAM, a French shipbuilding company, where she will visit the construction site of an overseas patrol boat (POM). The design and construction of the six POMs represent, on SOCARENAM's sites and for its many subcontractors in France, between 500 and 600 highly qualified jobs that cannot be relocated. Saint-Malo on 2020-10-08.Le jeudi 8 octobre 2020, Florence Parly, ministre des Armees, visite deux entreprises de defense essentielles au tissu economique de la region Bretagne. La ministre des Armees se rend dabord au sein de lentreprise SOCARENAM, entreprise française de construction navale, ou elle visite le chantier de la construction dun patrouilleur outre-mer (POM). La conception et la construction des six POM representent, sur les sites de SOCARENAM et pour ses nombreux

Sweeper manufacturer FAUN Viatec GmbH

On Thursday 8th October 2020, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, visits two defence companies essential to the economic fabric of the Brittany region. The Minister of the Armed Forces first visits SOCARENAM, a French shipbuilding company, where she will visit the construction site of an overseas patrol boat (POM). The design and construction of the six POMs represent, on SOCARENAM's sites and for its many subcontractors in France, between 500 and 600 highly qualified jobs that cannot be relocated. Saint-Malo on 2020-10-08.Le jeudi 8 octobre 2020, Florence Parly, ministre des Armees, visite deux entreprises de defense essentielles au tissu economique de la region Bretagne. La ministre des Armees se rend dabord au sein de lentreprise SOCARENAM, entreprise française de construction navale, ou elle visite le chantier de la construction dun patrouilleur outre-mer (POM). La conception et la construction des six POM representent, sur les sites de SOCARENAM et pour ses nombreux

Steel coils rolled in the steel plant

Worker standing in steel forge

Special ground support equipment is used to position one of two side flame deflectors underneath the mobile launcher for Artemis I during a countdown demonstration test at Launch Pad 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 23, 2020. The nearly 400-foot-tall mobile launcher is at the pad while engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs complete several tasks, including a timing test to validate the launch teams countdown timeline, and a thorough, top-to-bottom wash down of the mobile launcher to remove any debris remaining from construction and installation of the umbilical arms. Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.

Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Volta Redonda Steel Mill Factory Interior With Workers.

industry factory iron works steel and machine parts modern indoor hall for assambly

France, Saint Brieuc Company Holy Metal

France, Centre, Dreux, Loiselet foundry, material storage.

Schmiedewerke Groeditz GmbH

France, Centre, Dreux, Loiselet foundry, material finishing workshop.

Hands of male engineer fastening bolt with wrench at industry

Interior View of Orbiter Processing Facility 3

A timber factory, Laharrague Chodorge, which processes pine logs into many different types of building materials.

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

Garbage, household waste, waste separation, waste incineration, waste incineration plant, energy, TREA, Eschbach, Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

SALA DE MAQUINAS. Location: Casa. Sevilla. Seville. SPANIEN.

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Workers talking in steel forge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Rotation, Processing, and Surge Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Ares I-X aft skirt is mated to the aft segment (at right). At far left is a solid rocket booster stack for a shuttle. The launch of Ares I-X is targeted for August 2009.

Worker using machinery in steel forge

rolls of steel sheet

On Thursday, February 10, 2022, move crews at NASAs Michoud Assembly Facility lift the core stage 3 liquid oxygen tank (LOX) aft barrel out of the vertical friction stir weld tool to be moved for its next phase of production. Eventually, the aft barrel will be mated with the forward barrel and forward and aft domes to create the LOX tank, which will be used for the Space Launch Systems Artemis III mission. The LOX tank holds 196,000 gallons of super-cooled liquid oxygen to help fuel four RS-25 engines.The SLS core stage is made up of five unique elements: the forward skirt, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, liquid hydrogen tank, and the engine section. The liquid oxygen hardware, along with the liquid hydrogen tank will provide propellant to the four RS-25 engines to produce more than two million pounds of thrust to help launch NASAs Orion spacecraft, astronauts, and supplies beyond Earths orbit to the Moon.

T&R Endeavour, Alta Pod Installation/Demo, Enterprise/Smithsonia, Day 2

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Inside the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Anchorage, the Orion boilerplate test vehicle is secured on its cradle before the start of a portion of Underway Recovery Test 2. A winch line leads to the test vehicle and tether lines have been attached to control Orion. The bright orange stabilizers have been readied to keep Orion upright in the water if needed. NASA, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy are conducting the test in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego to prepare for recovery of the Orion crew module on its return from a deep space mission. The underway recovery test will allow the team to demonstrate and evaluate the recovery processes, procedures, new hardware and personnel in open waters.The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is conducting the underway recovery test. Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency ab

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ground support technicians help secure one of the sprocket shaft assemblies onto a cradle. All of the sprocket assemblies removed from the C truck of crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, will be placed into shipping cradles on pallets and positioned on a flatbed trailer. They will be sent to a vendor for inspections and refurbishment.Work continues in high bay 2 to upgrade CT-2. The modifications are designed to ensure CT-2s ability to transport launch vehicles currently in development, such as the agencys Space Launch System, to the launch pad. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at Kennedy is overseeing the upgrades. For more than 45 years the crawler-transporters were used to transport the mobile launcher platform and the Apollo-Saturn V rockets and, later, space shuttles to Launch Pads 39A and B.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Transportation and storage pallets in the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida await the arrival of the final solid rocket booster segments. The segments will be used for space shuttle Atlantis on what currently is planned as the 'launch on need,' or potential rescue mission for the final shuttle flight, Endeavour's STS-134 mission.

An employee of the Luitpoldhuette AG, a foundry that specializes in the casting of engine blocks, motor parts and refrigeration compressors, controlling the priming of cast parts in a colour dip, in Amberg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

iron works steel and machine parts modern factory indoor hall

Sweeper manufacturer FAUN Viatec GmbH

rolls of steel sheet stored in warehouse

Two businessmen having a meeting in a rubber processing factory

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot, second from right, is briefed on the modifications to crawler-transporter 2 in the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, during a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are Mary Hanna, crawler-transporter project manager, Kennedy Director Bob Cabana, Lightfoot, and Shawn Quinn, Vehicle Integration and Launch Integration Product Team, or IPT, manager. Crawler-transporter 2 is being readied to support NASA's new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, the SLS. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.

Man operating a machine in a metalworking factory

Bewehrungs- und Schalungsbauarbeiten Reinforced and formwork construction work. Shooting Location: Minato -ku, Tokyo Copyright: xZoonar.com/MakotoxHondax 22617608

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility, or RPSF, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane is prepared for lifting NASA locomotive No. 2 off of its trucks and moved aside, clearing the way for locomotive No. 3 to be raised off its trucks and moved into position atop the trucks previously used by locomotive No. 2. The RPSF was built to support work on the solid rocket used motors during the space shuttle era. The facility had never previously been used for another purpose, but is now free to serve other customers. With rails running into the building's high bay and a pair of heavy-lift cranes positioned overhead, the facility's capabilities were a perfect fit for the NASA Railroad's needs. Railroad managers wanted to trade the wheel and axle assemblies, or trucks, of locomotives No. 2 and No. 3. Locomotive No. 3 was painstakingly restored in recent years by the NASA Railroad team, and handles much of the rail work required at the cen

Machinery hall of the Saint-Louis/Arzviller ship lift on the Rhine-Marne Canal, Arzviller, Moselle department, Grand Est, France

Alternator, turbine house, old hydropower plant in Rheinfelden, 1898-2011, view before the demolition, Rheinfelden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Employees meeting in industrial hall near large rubber rollers

Hall, Haut Fourneau B, Liege, Belgium, Europe

Personnel in support of Joint Task Force-Red Hill (JTF-RH) begin the process of residual fuel removal from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Jan. 15, 2024, Halawa, Hawaii. This follows the successful gravity defueling operation completed on December 16, 2023, where over 104 million gallons of fuel were safely removed. Approximately 64,000 gallons of remaining fuel in the facility pipelines will now be addressed by JTF-RH, with an estimated 60,000 gallons set to be removed through a careful process, expected to conclude by the end of March. The newly formed Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill (NCTF-RH) is now integrating with JTF-RH and will assume responsibility for the facility's closure, including the removal of the final 4,000 gallons of fuel. JTF-RH and NCTF-RH are committed to working with regulators and government stakeholders to ensure Red Hill is defueled safely, expeditiously, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

220416-N-OL632-1256 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 16, 2022) A Sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transports ammunition during an ammunition onload with the dry cargo ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE 12), April 16, 2022. George H.W. Bush provides the national command authority flexible, tailorable war fighting capability through the carrier strike group that maintains maritime stability and security in order to ensure access, deter aggression and defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

Pipes and valves at anaerobic bio digester

An older worker in the metal industry at a CNC milling machine

steel bar and reinforcing steel cutting and bender machine in outdoor workshop

Mechanical and engineering services in the roof void. Stockton Globe, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom. Architect: Space Group Architects, 2020.

Holstein cow being milked using automated milking equipment with lasers and a robotic arm on a dairy farm, North of Edmonton; Alberta, Canada

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