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This Is The Huge Fuel Tank NASA Will Use To Reach The Depths Of Space
Image Cache: Don’t even ask how much this fuel tank will cost to fill. The giant cylinder is just one of the two tanks that will hold the fuel used to power NASA’s new Space Launch System when it blasts off to take missions to Mars and deep space.
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Neat Time Lapse Of NASA Assembling The RS-25 Space Shuttle Engine
NASA’s RS-25 rocket engine powered the space shuttles and four of them will be used to power the core stage of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS), the launch vehicle that will bring humans to deep space missions like landing on asteroids and Mars. This two minute time lapse video shows how NASA assembles it.
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This Giant Shaking Table Will Ensure The Orion Capsule Survives Launch
When the Orion spacecraft makes its maiden voyage into space, it will do so upon an unproven rocket design that’s bigger than and more powerful than anything we’ve built before. To ensure that the precious capsule survives liftoff, NASA is shaking it down with the help of this ginormous jitter table.
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This Is NASA’s New Giant Crawler For Its Next-Generation Spaceship
Things keep moving at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the first mission of NASA’s Space Launch System and its Orion spacecraft in 2017. The crawler-transporter just passed “the first phase of an important milestone test”.