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NASA Vehicle Assembly Building Upgrades

Images of the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building show cranes, platforms, and personnel preparing for upgrades and modifications, with a focus on safety and efficiency for future space missions.

Detail with crane and dry-dock. Boathouse 4, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Architect: Walters and Cohen Ltd, 2015.
Detail with crane and dry-dock. Boathouse 4, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Architect: Walters and Cohen Ltd, 2015.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Viewed from under a space shuttle era mobile launcher platform on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crawler-transporter No. 2 moves under. The activity was part of testing to check out recently completed modifications to ensure its ability to carry launch vehicles such as the space agency's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket to the pad.NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the 20-year life-extension project for the crawler. A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters has carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 40 years at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each weighing six and a half million pounds and larger in size than a professional baseball infield, the crawler-transporters are powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines. The crawler-transporters will stand ready to keep up the work for the next generation of launch
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Winch team operators help guide a test version of the Orion crew module in the flooded well deck of the USS San Diego during Underway Recovery Test 5 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Oct. 29, 2016. NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program and the U.S. Navy are conducting a series of tests using the ship's well deck, the test module, various watercraft and equipment to prepare for recovery of Orion on its return from deep space missions. The testing will allow the team to demonstrate and evaluate recovery processes, procedures, hardware and personnel in open waters. Part of Batch images transfer from Flickr.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A half section of the 10-foot-diameter fairing for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, is hoisted toward the environmental enclosure at the top of the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, past the Delta II first stage.The fairing will protect the SMAP spacecraft from the heat and aerodynamic pressure generated during its ascent to orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. SMAP will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles, and to extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. SMAP data will also be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and to develop improved flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities. Launch is scheduled for no earlier than November 2014.
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PLUM BROOK REACTOR FACILITY / CONTAINMENT VESSEL QUADRANT B AREA 24 NEUTRON SHIELD / 00105 / O15 - L14
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A view of the main deck of the Avenger class mine countermeasures ship DEVASTATOR (MCM-6) during construction at the Peterson Builders, Inc. shipyard. Base: Sturgeon Bay State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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PLUM BROOK REACTOR FACILITY / MANIPULATOR ARM CONTROL ROOM
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This image shows the Integrated Truss Assembly S-1 (S-One), the Starboard Side Thermal Radiator Truss, for the International Space Station (ISS) undergoing final construction in the Space Station manufacturing facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The S1 truss provides structural support for the orbiting research facility's radiator panels, which use ammonia to cool the Station's complex power system. Delivered and installed by the STS-112 mission, the S1 truss, attached to the S0 (S Zero) truss installed by the previous STS-110 mission, flows 637 pounds of anhydrous ammonia through three heat rejection radiators. The truss is 45-feet long, 15-feet wide, 10-feet tall, and weighs approximately 32,000 pounds. Manufactured by the Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, California, the truss primary structure was transferred to the Marshall Space Flight Center in February 1999 for hardware installations and manufacturing acceptance testing.
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The engine service platform is moved into position beneath the mobile launcher for Artemis I at Launch Pad 39B on Oct. 23, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The service platform allows access to the RS-25 engines on the Space Launch System core stage for routine work or inspections. The nearly 400-foot-tall mobile launcher will remain at the pad while engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs will 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.
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GULF OF MEXICO - Driller Bobby Moseley (left), and assistant driller Ron Suydam (right), monitor the iron roughneck”, the robotic arm used to unscrew long sections of pipe from the wellhead from the computerized control room aboard the Development Driller III on Saturday, September 18, 2010. The bottom kill” procedure is the final sealing and abandonment of the Macando well, which involves filling the plug with cement and pressure testing it to 15,000 pounds.
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Three workers wrapping boat in shipyard
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Professorship for Flight Mechanics and Flight Control at the Technical University (TU) Dresden
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Hybrid Wing Body Acoustic Test in 14x22 Tunnel ERA HWB Test -Acoustic
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Canada, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Interior of the first major hydro electric power plant in Niagara Falls completed in 1905, is now a interactive museum
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Inside the power generator room, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, NV
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Demolition, construction site, construction industry, Germany, Europe
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The SLS Stages Intertank Structural Test Assembly (STA) is rolling off the NASA Pegasus Barge at the MSFC Dock enroute to the MSFC 4619 Load Test Annex test facility for qualification testing
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United States of America, Nevada / Arizona, Boulder City, the hall containing the 8 power plant generators on the Nevada side of the Hoover Dam,
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Canada, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Interior of the first major hydro electric power plant in Niagara Falls completed in 1905, is now a interactive museum
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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
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Inside the power generator room, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, NV
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Sri Lanka, Victoria Dam, Men Working On Construction Of The Dam
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Europe, Belgique, Charleroi. Electrabel cooling tower
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The Atlas V rocket that will launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is coming together inside a United Launch Alliance facility in Decatur, Alabama. Boeings Starliner will launch on the Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station as part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-134 crew and technicians check out space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay. The six STS-134 astronauts are participating in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), which gives them an opportunity for hands-on training with the tools and equipment they'll use in space and familiarization of the payload they'll be delivering to the International Space Station. Endeavour is targeted to launch on the STS-134 mission Feb. 27, 2011.
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Gripping crane absorbs the garbage for combustion in a garbage heating unit in the garbage heating unit is used as a fuel for energy generation. Electrical energy and district heating are produced. , Property Released
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France, Poitou-Charentes Region, Charente-Maritime Department, Rochefort, Corderie Royale, royal rope-making factory of the French Navy, reconstruction of l'Hermione, the ship that brought General Lafayette to America during the American Revolution
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Canada, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Interior of the first major hydro electric power plant in Niagara Falls completed in 1905, is now a interactive museum
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France, Paris, La Villete, Village of Science.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Bay 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance technicians remove the two external fuel tank doors from the space shuttle Atlantis. The orbiter is undergoing final preparations for its transfer to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex targeted for November.The work is part of Transition and Retirement of the remaining space shuttles, Atlantis and Endeavour. Atlantis is being prepared for public display at Kennedy's Visitor Complex. Over the course of its 26-year career, Atlantis spent 293 days in space during 33 missions.
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Tunnel piperoof grouting Construction of piperoof grouting for tunnel construction. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFörstnerx 8880379
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Unesco world heritage site Voelklingen Ironworks, Saarland, Germany, Europe
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Workers with Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs teams assist as the right-hand forward segment for NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) is lowered onto the center forward segment on the mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 23, 2021. Stacking of the twin five-segment boosters on the mobile launcher is nearing completion. When the core stage arrives, it will join the boosters on the mobile launcher, followed by the interim cryogenic propulsion stage and Orion spacecraft. Manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, the twin boosters provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust at launch. The SLS is managed by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and SLS as an integrated system ahead of crewed
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Professorship for Flight Mechanics and Flight Control at the Technical University (TU) Dresden
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Mining museum, Museum of Industry, El Entrego, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, Europe
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Steel fabrication in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Trichy Tamil Nadu India NOMR Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox
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Elbe Aircraft Works
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modern and new automated integrated poultry farm
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F-18 being installed in the NASA Ames Full-scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) 80x120_foot wind tunnel test section for High Alpha Test-823 Phase II
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Models, Norsk Oljemuseum, Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway, Europe
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Turbines inside Grand Coulee Dam, Electric City, Washington, USA
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Large Stainless steel fermentation vats in modern beer brewery factory plant.
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Canada, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Interior of the first major hydro electric power plant in Niagara Falls completed in 1905, is now a interactive museum
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Scotland,Edinburgh,Interior of the Tartan Weaving Mill
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Thailand, Hatyai, modern Chedi from high-grade steel, Maha Chedi trei pob Trei Mongkol
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Production of Aston Martin motors, Aston Martin engine plant in Cologne, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
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A photograph taken July 24, 2019, shows new tanks and piping were installed outside of the Utility Annex near the Vehicle Assembly (VAB) Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Utility Annex, which provides 8,000 gallons of chilled water per minute to the VAB and other facilities in the Launch Complex 39 area, is being upgraded and repaired. The facility also contains boilers necessary to provide hot water to the VAB. The centers Engineering Directorate is making the repairs and upgrades to the facility to prepare for the agencys Artemis missions to the Moon and on to Mars.
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desalinizadora Son Tugores,centro de control de la estacion de tratamiento de agua potable, Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain