A test version of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for NASA's Space Launch System rocket is loaded into the test stand at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
A test version of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is loaded into the test stand at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Two simulators and four qualification articles of the upper part of the SLS will be stacked in the stand and subjected to forces similar to those experienced in flight. The LVSA joins the core stage simulator, which was loaded into the test stand Sept. 21. The other three qualification articles and the Orion simulator will complete the stack later this fall.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Brian Massey