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Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - Look up! ⬆️ NASA's mobile launcher is inside High Bay 3 at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Sept. 11, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In view are several levels of the new work platforms. One level has been extended around the mobile launcher tower, and the crew access arm, in view at the top, is being extended. The mobile launcher will spend seven months in the VAB undergoing testing. The 380-foot-tall structure is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to the agency's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars. Credit: NASA/ Frank Michaux #nasa #groundsystems #mobilelauncher #orion #sls #moon #exploration #engineering #vab #spacecoast https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn4-5xdge4D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g5rpqpcuidb6

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - Progress continues down on the Space Coast! Construction is complete on the main flame deflector in the flame trench at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flame deflector will safely deflect the plume exhaust from NASA's Space Launch System rocket during launch. It will divert the rocket's exhaust, pressure and intense heat to the north at liftoff. The Exploration Ground Systems Program at Kennedy is refurbishing the pad to support the launch of the SLS rocket and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, and helping to transform the space center into a multi-user spaceport. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett #nasa #groundsystems #sls #orion #rocket #launch #engineering #kennedyspacecenter

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - A new service platform for NASA's Space Launch System booster engines has been offloaded from a flatbed truck and is being prepared for the move into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The platform was transported from fabricator Met-Con Inc. in Cocoa, Florida. It will be stored in the VAB, and used for processing and checkout of the engines for the rocket's twin five-segment solid rocket boosters for Exploration Mission-1. EM-1 will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the Moon and bring it back to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett #NASA #groundsystems #SLS #rocket #orion #vab #exploration #supplier

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - A construction worker with JP Donovan helps prepare the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage Umbilical (ICPSU) for installation high up on the tower of the mobile launcher (ML) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The last of the large umbilicals to be installed, the ICPSU will provide super-cooled hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage, or upper stage, at T-0 for Exploration Mission-1. The umbilical will be located at about the 240-foot-level of the mobile launcher and will supply fuel, oxidizer, gaseous helium, hazardous gas leak detection, electrical commodities and environment control systems to the upper stage of the SLS rocket during launch. Exploration Ground Systems is overseeing installation of the umbilicals on the ML. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky #NASA #groundsystems #sls #orion #progress

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - NASA is pressing full steam ahead toward sending humans farther than ever before. Take a look at the work being done by teams across the nation for NASA’s Deep Space Exploration System, including the Space Launch System, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems programs, as they continue to propel human spaceflight into the next generation. Highlights from the fourth quarter of 2017 included Orion parachute drop tests at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona; the EM-1 Crew Module move from Cleanroom to Workstation at Kennedy Space Center; Crew Training, Launch Pad Evacuation Scenario, and Crew Module Vibration and Legibility Testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center; RS-25 Rocket Engine Testing at Stennis Space Center; Core Stage Engine Section arrival, Core Stage Pathfinder; LH2 Qualification Tank; Core Stage Intertank Umbilical lift at Mobile Launcher; Crew Access Arm move to Mobile Launcher; Water Flow Test at Launch Complex 39-B. Credit: NASA #NASA #orion #SLS #groundsystems #deepspace #exploration #progress #testing

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - Did you know that Vehicle Assembly building will be used to stack the SLS rocket? This massive structure is critical in supporting the upcoming EM-1 Launch. Check out this video to learn more about VAB and how it supports deep space exploration. Credit: NASA #nasa #kennedyspacecenter #fridayfunfact #vab #vehicleassemblybuilding #didyouknow #spaceport #groundsystems #ksc

Repost from @explorenasa using @RepostRegramApp - Sound up! @NASA Underway Recovery Test 6 (URT-6) highlights from Day 3 of testing aboard the USS Anchorage off the coast of San Diego, California. During Underway Recovery Test 6, Kennedy Space Center’s NASA Recovery Team spent a week aboard the USS Anchorage where they and the U.S. Navy tested procedures and ground support equipment to improve recovery procedures and hardware ahead of Orion’s next flight, Exploration Mission-1, when it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean. The Orion test article sits inside the well deck of the USS Anchorage after a successful recovery test Jan. 22. Credit: NASA #nasa #groundsystems @usnavy #Orion #recovery #pacificocean #progress #humanspaceflight @nasakennedy

#Repost from @explorenasa of a beautiful shot of an Orion spacecraft recovery rehearsal in the Pacific Ocean, led by integrated NASA and U.S. Navy teams last Friday. Under the auspices of Exploration Ground Systems, Melissa Jones, NASA’s recovery director, and her team will recover the Orion capsule and crew. This test is to help ensure they are ready before the first uncrewed Orion mission aboard the agency’s new Space Launch System rocket, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). EM-1 lays the groundwork for a crewed mission, EM-2, which will venture 40,000 miles beyond the Moon before returning crew aboard safely home . More: www.nasa.gov/exploration Credit: NASA #nasa #usnavy #pacificocean #exploration #groundsystems #orion #spaceexploration #nextfrontier #spaceisrad (at Los Angeles, California)