The 149-foot-long Space Launch System liquid hydrogen tank structural test article is almost as large as the entire space shuttle external tank.
The 149-foot-long Space Launch System liquid hydrogen tank structural test article is almost as large as the entire space shuttle external tank. Engineers assembled the tank and two simulators vertically at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Then they lifted it with large cranes to break it over, or lower it, onto special transporters, which will move it to NASA’s barge Pegasus.
Image Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon