Join Us on the Job Site of Testing NASA's Deep-Space Rocket – in 360!
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Feel like a part of the team getting ready to test the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System! This 360-degree timelapse video gives an inside look at the work going on ahead of major testing for the upper part of the SLS at a test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Test versions of the hardware are now being stacked and will undergo a rigorous test series in 2017 -- being pushed, pulled and twisted to ensure each structure can withstand the incredible stresses of launch. The hardware being lifted into the test stand at the start of the 360 experience is a test version of the Orion stage adapter – which will connect the Orion spacecraft to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). The ICPS is a liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen-based system that will give Orion the in-space push needed to fly beyond the moon before it returns to Earth on the first flight of SLS and Orion in late 2018. Go to the right, and look way up to see one of the new test stands that will put the SLS liquid oxygen tank under pressure to verify the hardware can handle the harsh environments of space travel. To the left is a historic NASA test stand where testing was done on the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle propulsion systems. The liquid oxygen tank -- along with a liquid hydrogen tank -- will be two of the largest fuel tanks in the world to power SLS on missions to deep space, including NASA's Journey to Mars. For more information on the test series, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/2hKhEoR. To learn more about SLS, visit: www.nasa.gov/sls
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NASA never went past the dome
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