# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BOk0TV2DMKL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346091-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-12-28T21:05:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Announcing huge progress made! A team prepares a robot – the yellow machine attached to the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System rocket -- for friction plug welding at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Friction plug welding is a technique developed by engineers at NASA_Marshall. It uses a robot to fill holes left after the tank goes through assembly in a larger robotic welder. The liquid hydrogen tank, along with a liquid oxygen tank, will provide 733,000 gallons of fuel for the first integrated mission of SLS with NASA's Orion spacecraft in 2018. 
Credit: NASA/Michoud/Steve Seipel

#NASA #SLS #NOLA #Michoud #journeytoMars

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nola, nasa, journeytomars, michoud, sls

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