Michoud ImagesPegasus departed NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Nov. 1, 2016, and traveled on the Pearl...A team prepares a robot – the yellow machine attached to the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System...Recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, where several facilities suffered damage by a...Roof and equipment damage was sustained today at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, when a tornado touched...Debris, fence and building damage are seen at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, when a tornado touched...Tornado recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, when a tornado touched down at...Tornado recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, when a tornado touched down at...The destructive power of the tornado that hit NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 7 is clearly...Some of the damage to building walls and roofs at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is visible in...Some of the damage to building walls and roofs at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is visible in...Michoud Safety and Security completed an initial assessment of NASA’s 829-acre rocket factory, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans....The NASA and Boeing Space Launch System team are back working at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. They...Manufacturing is complete on the liquid hydrogen tank structural qualification test article, shown here.Machining for NASA's Orion spacecraft, scheduled to fly on the second integrated flight with agency's Space Launch System rocket, is...A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge...This engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System is being prepared to be shipped on the barge...This engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System is being prepared to be shipped on the barge...NASA’s barge, Pegasus, will ferry the massive core stage of the agency’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, on journeys...The Space Launch System’s core stage engine section structural qualification test article is stacked and prepared for shipment on the...Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, left, learns about damage from the Feb. 7, 2017 tornado at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot and NASA managers observe construction of the core stage engine sections being built for Space...Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, second from right, viewed Space Launch System hardware and tooling at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...Workers began assessing and making roof repairs to the 43-acre rocket manufacturing building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility and other...Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot viewed tornado repairs made after tornado damage to Michoud Assembly Facility Building 103 where NASA...Liquid oxygen tank being manufactured for weld confidence testing shows how domes are added to make tanks in the Vertical...The intertank to be flown on the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System and Orion is nearly finished...The engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System rocket arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on...NASA’s barge Pegasus arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on May 15 with the Space Launch...On May 17, 2017, the engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System was moved from the barge...NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly constructed...NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing plants, with 43 acres under...NASA cleared the dome, shown here being removed from the infeeder tool, for use as intended as the bottom dome...NASA and Boeing have cleared the dome, shown here, for use as the bottom of dome of a SLS liquid...More than 500,000 gallons of fuel will flow from the liquid hydrogen tank to the four RS-25 engines that power...The bottom of a Space Launch System liquid hydrogen fuel tank test article is visible as it is lowered into...Engineers assembled the structure of the intertank that will be flown on the first Space Launch System integrated flight with...All four RS-25 engines that will power SLS for its first flight are ready to be integrated with the rocket's...Technicians practice operations with the RS-25 pathfinder engine that recently arrived at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.The core stage pathfinder, a full-scale, steel mockup of the SLS core stage, is at Michoud and ready for technicians...The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the...