NASA SLS Welding Snafu Sets Back Schedule

Credit: NASA
As NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System enters 10 weeks of critical design review, the program manager’s main technical concern lies with correcting an alignment problem with the massive friction-stir-welding tool built to manufacture tanks for the vehicle, and not with the design itself. Two of...

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