Move crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility lift the aft liquid oxygen tank (LOX) barrel out of the Vertical Weld Center (VWC) for its next phase of production. The aft barrel will eventually be ...

Mechanical-impact tests in liquid oxygen show that uncoated steel and aluminium alloy showed no ignition at the standard ...

When space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Feb. 7, it will mark the first flight of an external tank manufactured using longitudinal friction stir ...

As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to return astronauts to the moon under its Artemis campaign for the benefit of all, the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will be responsible for ...

A piece of space history was loaded onto a barge last week waiting in Fidalgo Bay to be taken to a U.S. Coast Guard-approved site for testing. The carbon-fiber liquid-oxygen tank is the first ...