Posted on 08/06/2015 5:13:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA engineers are making the biggest, lightweight rocket parts ever manufactured for space vehicles to deeper manned missions, such as Mars exploration.
It is a robot established at Marshall Space Flight Centre of NASA in Alabama. According to the US space agency, it is among the largest composites manufacturing robots made in the US.
According to Preston Jones, deputy director of Marshall's Engineering Directorate, "This addition to Marshall's Composites Technology Centre provides modern technology to develop low-cost and high-speed manufacturing processes for making large composite rocket structures. We will build and test these structures to determine if they are a good fit for space vehicles".
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According to Justin Jackson, Marshall materials engineer who has installed and examined the robot, the robot will create structures bigger than 8 meters, in diameter, which will be some of the biggest composite structures ever made for space vehicles. He also assisted in building and testing one of the largest composite rocket fuel tanks ever constructed.
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Is it me, or is this incredibly short sighted.
Kinda like building a car in your living room.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs built a boat in his basement.
Was it Ziva, or Kate that asked him how he was gonna get it out?
I found other instances where he was asked, but Gibbs' response here is the best one.
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Hey, that boat I built in my basement is a beaut.
It does get in the way when I need to use the washer/dryer, though.
Oh. I hoped to see 3D printing with Inconel-X.
A buddy of mine told me, “A boat is a big hole in the water you throw money into.”, and the 2 best days in a boat owners life are the day he buys it, and the day he sells it.
So you may be getting the most out of it in your basement!
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