Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift

visibility Similar

UNLOADING OF METAL WINDMILL BLADE FOR KW KILOWATT MOD-0 MACHINE

Saturn Pre Launch Alert. NASA public domain image colelction.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Vehicle Assembly Building's high bay 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the blue Ares I-X upper stage simulator segments are moved inside where they will be offloaded. The upper stage simulators will be used in the test flight identified as Ares I-X in 2009. The Ares I-X test flight will provide NASA an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I crew launch vehicle. It also will allow NASA to gather critical data during ascent of the integrated Orion crew exploration vehicle and the Ares I rocket. The data will ensure the entire vehicle system is safe and fully operational before astronauts begin traveling to orbit. The simulator segments will simulate the mass and the outer mold line and will be more than 100 feet of the total vehicle height of 327 feet. The simulator comprises 11 segments that are approximately 18 feet in diameter. Most of the segments will be approximately 10 feet high, ranging in weight from 18,000 to 60,000 pounds, for a total of approximately 450,000 pounds. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-08pd3523

JSC2011-E-030364 (1 April 2011) --- The upper stage of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is moved into position for mating with the rest of the Soyuz booster at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 1, 2011. Preparations continue for the launch of the Expedition 27 crew to the International Space Station April 5 (Kazakhstan time). Astronaut Ron Garan of NASA, along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev (Soyuz commander) and Andrey Borisenko will be aboard the Soyuz, which is dubbed ?Gagarin?, for the launch that will occur just one week shy of the launch of Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov jsc2011e030364

Antares Rocket Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 49 Rollout (NHQ201610160011)

A crane is lifting a large object into the water. Spacecraft spacex spaceship, science technology.

Expedition 43 Soyuz Assembly. NASA public domain image colelction.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Orion crew module, stacked atop its service module, is being transported to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will be fueled ahead of its December flight. The spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test-1 was moved out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay. Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted test flight of the Orion is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to an altitude of 3,600 miles above the Earth's surface. The two-orbit, four-hour flight test will help engineers evaluate the systems critical to crew safety including the heat shield, parachute system and launch abort system. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper KSC-2014-3848

code Related

Technicians with Jacobs on the Test and Operations Support Contract have positioned a platform close to NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility, managed and operated by Space Florida, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for offloading of the shipping container carrying the Orion heat shield for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1). The heat shield will be offloaded and transported to the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay for processing. The heat shield arrived from Lockheed Martin’s manufacturing facility near Denver. The Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on EM-1, an uncrewed test flight, in 2018.

More: related pages

Nothing Found.

orion em 1 exploration journey to mars slf o and c heatshield nasa dimitri gerondidakis kennedy space center em orion em heat shield offload heat shield offload transport high resolution manufacturing nasa

26/08/2016

28.61446, -80.69411

NASA

https://images.nasa.gov/

Public Domain Dedication (CC0)