The NASA Photo Social at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, Louisiana, gathered social media-savvy photographers together on August 16 and 17 to snap and share photos of the facility where NASA is building components for its deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and crew vehicle, the Orion spacecraft. NASA Michoud is a world-class facility that is unique because it is one of the largest production buildings in the nation with a rich history of manufacturing excellence. One photographer (istefpayne) captured Cell F of Building 110 at MAF. Cell F is used for a hydraulic proof test of the welded LOX tank for the SLS core stage. To perform the test, the tank is filled with water, then an additional weight of water is added into a large standpipe that extends up through the roof of the building. The total weight of water closely simulates the weight of liquid oxygen with similarly applied g-forces that will lift SLS from the launchpad on missions to deep spac...
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