NASA Rocket Section Tested To Failure For Engineering Data
Credit: NASA
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center applied almost 1 million lb. of force to crush a 20-ft.-tall aluminum lithium cylinder in a test-to-failure designed to update engineering data generated in the Apollo era. A follow-on to tests with smaller articles, the large-scale trial aims to...
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