Michoud ImagesNASA'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...NASA completed major welding for the liquid hydrogen tank for the first Space Launch System mission at the agency’s Michoud...NASA is another step closer to completing all main structures for the agency’s first launch of the Space Launch System...To reduce the risk of first-time operations with one-of-a-kind spaceflight hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the agency built...Welders inside a large liquid hydrogen tank being manufactured for NASA's Space Launch System at the Michoud Assembly Facility in...Inside the Vertical Assembly Building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, four fuel tanks are being built and...The Space Launch System intertank, shown here moving down the factory floor, finished structural assembly at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...NASA engineers picked up this year where they left off in 2017, conducting a certification test of another RS-25 engine...At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians with Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin welded together the first two...Connecting the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks, the intertank is built differently from the rest of the core stage....Operators powered one of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) engines up to 113 percent thrust level, the highest RS-25 power...A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the...NASA's barge Pegasus leaves the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, en route to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in...The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the massive Space Launch System core stage, built at NASA's...A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, arrives at NASA’s Marshall...The liquid hydrogen tank for NASA’s deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, makes a move for its next step in...Engineers installed structural test hardware for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, into a test stand at NASA's...At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, the liquid hydrogen flight tank (background) requires thermal protection due to...NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks with members of the media in front of the massive liquid hydrogen tank, which comprises...This week in 1965, technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility installed the S-IC-D thrust structure in the Vertical Assembly Building.NASA and Boeing have completed the majority of outfitting for the core stage engine section for the first flight of...This week in 1968, the Saturn S-IC-6 arrived at the Mississippi Test Facility -- today’s NASA Stennis Space Center --...Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed the application of the thermal protection systems on the149-foot-long...The recently completed “forward join,” or forward portion, of the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System’s core stage is...Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed the “forward join,” connecting structures to form the top...Engineers built a tank identical to the Space Launch System tank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1, the first...Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, moved the largest piece of structural test hardware for America's new...To create the liquid hydrogen tank structural test article, engineers built a tank identical to the Space Launch System tank...The 149-foot-long Space Launch System liquid hydrogen tank structural test article is almost as large as the entire space shuttle...Technicians lifted the intertank for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), into a vertical stacking area at...SLS Core Stage manager Julie Bassler, left, updates NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, middle, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center acting...
