Structural Test Stands at Marshall Space Flight Center

摘要

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) describes the new Space Launch System-which will propel the agency's Orion spacecraft to deep-space destinations-as being designed to be "flexible and evolvable" in order to accommodate varying sizes of rockets. For the contractors and engineers building the Space Launch System (SLS) Test Stands at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., remaining flexible while delivering what proved to be an evolving design goal became a core challenge.