Space Technology Assembly

Photos of technicians working on NASA's space launch systems, showcasing advanced engineering and assembly processes in well-equipped facilities.

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Technicians work on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield at Textron in Wimington, MA on June 7, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a cover, called a spider, is attached to the top of the Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage pathfinder on Oct. 4, 2019. 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 on 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 properly. The pathfinder will stay at Kennedy for approximately one month before trekking

The first of Ares 1-X Flight Segments, the US-2 being stacked onto the SSAS (Super Structure Assembly Stand). This is the first formaiton of the Super Stack

The Motor Adapter Truss Assembly (MATA) adapter for Artemis I Orion, which connects the crew module to the launch abort system, is ready for shipment at AMRO Fabricating Corporation in California on June 18, 2018.

NEW ORLEANS MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU SPEAKS AT DEDICATION OF VERTICAL ASSEMBLY CENTER;

(NTF) National Transonic Facility user guide photos.

Interior View of Orbiter Processing Facility 3

First weld of Orion Exploration Mission 1 crew module

Delta II/GRAIL Fairing Installation

Interior View of Orbiter Processing Facility 3

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Parachute Refurbishment Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the parachutes recovered from sea after the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-126 mission are moved through the 30,000-gallon washer. The parachutes are used to slow the descent of the solid rocket boosters that are jettisoned during liftoff. After washing, the monorail will move the parachutes into a huge dryer heated with 140-degree air at 13,000 cubic feet per minute. One pilot, one drogue and three main canopies per booster slow the boosters fall from about 360 mph to 50 mph. After the chutes are cleaned and repaired, they must be carefully packed into their bags so they will deploy correctly the next time they are used.

The manufacture of an industrial exhaust fan at an industrial plant. Traction fan assembly. Industrial ventilation system. Metallurgical and parts manufacturing The manufacture of an industrial exhaust fan at an industrial plant. Traction fan assembly. Metallurgical and parts manufacturing. Copyright: xZoonar.com/AntonxBrehovx 14247805

USA, Florida, Miami, Miami Design District, design mall, interior, defocussed.

A view of the Soyuz rocket engines after engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome mated the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation for a launch on April 19 of the Expedition 9 crew and a European astronaut to the International Space Station, Friday, April 16, 2004 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Super Guppy arrival and (MBB) Multi-Bay Box Delivery ; Super Guppy arrival and MBB Delivery: super Guppy arrival at NASA Langley hangar, and unloading of (MBB) multi-bay box, transport of MBB to COLTS and move into building 1256.

MATING OF THE MULTI-PURPOSE CREW VEHICLE STAGE ADAPTER (MSA) WITH ITS DIAPHRAGM IN BLDG. 4708. DECEMBER 20, 2014.

Salina Turda, underground salt mine tourist attraction in Turda city, Romania, Europe

Mixed Flow High Temperature Nozzle

Two engineers talking in a factory

Factory worker in truck manufacture

NASA's mobile launcher is inside High Bay 3 at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Sept. 11, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In view are several levels of the new work platforms that will surround the mobile launcher during stacking and processing for launch. In view at the top is the crew access arm, which is being extended. The mobile launcher will spend seven months in the VAB undergoing testing. The 380-foot-tall structure is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to the agency's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.

In one of the initial assembly steps for the Saturn IB launch vehicle's S-IB (first) stage, workers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) near New Orleans, Louisiana, complete the lower shroud assembly. Developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center and built by the Chrysler Corporation at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), the S-IB utilized the eight H-1 engines and each produced 200,000 pounds of thrust, a combined thrust of 1,600,000 pounds.

Arrival and Unloading of the Mechanical Vibration Facility Table Hardware at Space Power Facility, SPF

NASA joined the Space Launch System rockets core stage forward assembly with the 130-foot liquid hydrogen tank for the Artemis II mission on March 18. This completes assembly of four of the five large structures that make up the core stage that will help send the first astronauts to lunar orbit on Artemis II.The 66-foot forward assembly consists of the forward skirt, liquid oxygen tank and the intertank, which were mated earlier. Engineers inserted 360 bolts to connect the forward assembly to the liquid hydrogen tank to make up the bulk of the stage. Only the engine section, which is currently being outfitted and includes the main propulsion systems that connect to the four RS-25 engines, remains to be added to form the final core stage.All parts of the core stage are manufactured by NASA and Boeing, the core stage lead contractor at the agencys Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Currently, the team is building core stages for three Artemis missions. The first core stage is

Royal Opera House Production Workshop, Purfleet, United Kingdom. Architect: Nicholas Hare Architects LLP, 2013. Perspective of production hall with set designers at work.

T&R POST SHUTTLE ERA EQUIPMENT (CRANES, ETC.) LOADED TO PEGASUS BARGE AWAITING FOR DEPARTURE TO STENNIS

Ship building and scaffolding in a shipyard

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Delta Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., technician Ed Wagner inspects the Delta second stage nozzle for a Boeing Delta IV launch vehicle after it was uncrated. The Delta IV is scheduled to launch the GOES-N satellite in May 2005. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites are sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). GOES-N is the first in the next series of GOES satellites, N-P. The multimission GOES series N-P will be a vital contributor to weather, solar and space operations and science. The GOES N-P series will aid activities ranging from severe storm warnings to resource management and advances in science.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, technicians watch closely as an upper segment is carefully moved toward the lower segment of the starboard Solid Rocket Booster below. The SRB is being stacked for Return to Flight mission STS-114 on Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Discovery is scheduled for a launch planning window of May 12 to June 3, 2005.

UK, England, London, Southwark, Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast, Gun Shell Storage Room

Lock gate of the Herne-Ost lock on the Rhine-Herne Canal, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane in Bremen, Germany on Nov. 5, 2018 for transport to Kennedy Space Center...For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESAs prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASAs human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.

Under construction site, crane, parking lot, and car traffic transportation in Asian city at night. Drone aerial top view. Industrial business or civil engineering technology concept

A view of the pilot house 02 level 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)

Rijkswerf: Structure of the Polyester BoOnOm intended for the M-fragates and to test on HR MS "Mercuur

The modern and new automated integrated poultry farm

Professorship for Flight Mechanics and Flight Control at the Technical University (TU) Dresden

Schuetzkapelle, in the Dresden Residenzschloss Here the segments for the ribbed vault to be rebuilt in the Schuetzkapelle of Dresden Palace are being installed by foreman Steffen Rauh, which will be realised by 2012 according to a project by architect Jens Uwe Anwand of Dressler Bau

Ship building shoot inside of shipyard

Workers working on electronic parts during the final assembly of a bottling plant, Krones AG company, Neutraubling, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Park Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord, Blast Furnace 5 Duisburg Ruhr area North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine Germany

Technicians work on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield at Textron in Wimington, MA on June 7, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Operation to stack Ares 1-X Segment US5 onto US4

USA, Nevada, Hoover Dam, Interior - Turbine Hall with viewing gallery

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance (USA) technicians continue processing of Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery is undergoing its Orbiter Major Modification Period, a regularly scheduled structural inspection and modification downtime, which began in September 2002..

A close-up view of some of the treads on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the behemoth vehicle moves along the crawlerway at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 22, 2021. Teams are working to ensure the crawlerway, the path the CT-2, mobile launcher, and Space Launch System rocket with Orion atop will take from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B, is strong enough to withstand the weight and provide stability for the Artemis I mission. CT-2 carrying mobile launcher platform 1, used during the shuttle program, was driven back and forth on the crawlerway with several cement blocks, each weighing about 40,000 pounds to strengthen the crawlerway for launch. Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish sustainable lunar exploration by the end of the decade.

USA, Nevada, Hoover Dam, Interior - Turbine Hall

Tanker ship cargo ship global business logistics import export freight shipping transportation, Tanker ship analysis, Big data visualization graphic graph and chart information business.

COMBUSTOR FACILITIES

United States of America, Nevada / Arizona, Boulder City, the hall containing the 8 power plant generators on the Nevada side of the Hoover Dam,

Recycling tanks, drinking water treatment plant of the THW, Federal Agency for Technical Relief, TWAA UF-15, mobile water supply system for use in the event of a disaster, M nster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Paint Manufacture

Knitting in a garment industry, Tiruppur Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Rotary milking parlor and herd of Holstein cows

GRAIL put into Canister and Canister lifted onto Transporter

A worker sprinkling steam water on the machine at the sugar factory in Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Office of the Chief Technologist, OCT Innovation Workshop, and Facility Tours

Solar Array Concentrator in Vacuum Tank 6

Kelly Aerospace 727 inlet anti-icing model

A frame grab from a mounted video camera on the E-3 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center documents testing of the new Project Morpheus engine. The new liquid methane, liquid oxygen engine will power the Morpheus prototype lander, which could one day evolve to carry cargo safely to the moon, asteroids or Mars surfaces.

France, Essonne, Morangis, Confectionery Kubli

Engines of water pumps at a water pumping station. Pumping irrigation system of rice fields. Room control and maintenance of pump electric motors

Still Imaging

Four big wine presses from Pera inscribed with Champagne Duval Leroy Champagne Duval Leroy, Vertus, Cotes des Blancs , Champagne, Marne, Ardennes, France , low light grainy grain

Chemnitz Industrial Museum

Beer storage at the Budweiser brewery in Ceske Budejovice, Budweis, Budvar, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe

A800605A U3KY HURON KING EXPERIMENT CONFIGURATION T. TOWNE (Project Engineer) JUN 2 80 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/2/1980 ARTWORKS; DECALS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES; EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES (SNL); EXPERIMENT CONFIGURATION; HURON KING; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; LOGOS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; SHAFTS; SYMBOLS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

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