Move crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility lift the aft liquid oxygen tank (LOX) barrel out of the Vertical Weld Center (VWC) for its next phase of production. The aft barrel will eventually be ...
Okise said with the addition of the new plant, JOOTRH now operates multiple oxygen sources, including the newly installed ...
When space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Feb. 7, it will mark the first flight of an external tank manufactured using longitudinal friction stir ...
The heart of the rocket that will launch astronauts to the Moon in a few years is now complete. These astronauts will become the first people to walk the lunar surface since Apollo. NASA announced on ...
Ogive shaped nose section of ET-138 at Michoud holds forward liquid oxygen tank on top of aft liquid hydrogen tank and connecting intertank – surrounded by scaffolding. ET-138 will fuel STS 134 flight ...
A piece of space history was loaded onto a barge last week waiting in Fidalgo Bay to be taken to a U.S. Coast Guard-approved site for testing. The carbon-fiber liquid-oxygen tank is the first ...
Seattle roadways were snarled for six hours Thursday when a truck hauling liquid oxygen tanks broke down and began exploding on highway I-5. All southbound I-5 lanes, closed around 1 p.m. and roads ...