Orion Capsule Weld Sets Record
A circumferential friction stir weld used to join the two halves of a test article for NASA’s proposed Orion crew capsule is the longest ever accomplished, demonstrating the manufacturing advances achieved in the U.S. space agency’s troubled Constellation program. Lockheed Martin engineers and...
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