Inside The World’s Largest Spacecraft Welding Tool

Credit: Frank Morring, Jr./AW&ST
NASA is using a massive friction stir welding tool at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to build its first flight structure for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), after cranking out two test copies to validate the process. The Vertical Assembly Center (VAC) uses friction-stir...

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