Was there any SLS hardware there?
Tornado Damage at NASA's Michoud Facility in New Orleans East via Jonathan Simeral
Direct damage video - https://twitter.com/ScottWalker6/status/829049022635712512/video/1
At 11:25 a.m. CST, a tornado impacted NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. At this time, only minor injuries have been reported and NASA employees and other tenants are being accounted for. There is still a threat of severe weather in the area and emergency officials are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure the safety of onsite personnel. The onsite Michoud emergency response team is also conducting damage assessments of buildings and facilities.
Yuck. Apologies if I'm duplicating, but saw this at the airport as I was getting back to the States. Here's what NASA PAO Tracy McMahan passed along after I touched base with her:QuoteAt 11:25 a.m. CST, a tornado impacted NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. At this time, only minor injuries have been reported and NASA employees and other tenants are being accounted for. There is still a threat of severe weather in the area and emergency officials are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure the safety of onsite personnel. The onsite Michoud emergency response team is also conducting damage assessments of buildings and facilities.I haven't had a chance to see if this statement or another has gone up elsewhere yet.
"Our folks are all taken care of," said Steve Doering, stages manager for the Space Launch System being built at Michoud. Other than scrapes, Doering said there were no major injuries.
Story by Lee Roop:http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/02/tornado_swats_nasas_michoud_bu.htmlQuote"Our folks are all taken care of," said Steve Doering, stages manager for the Space Launch System being built at Michoud. Other than scrapes, Doering said there were no major injuries.There are other tenants at MAF; not sure this covers those but hopefully everyone else is OK, too.
Video taken from the (rear?) of MAF.
https://twitter.com/jimtaylorjr/status/829040780111183873/photo/1
Saw this video on the Weather Channel...there's some NSFW language in the audio...under the circumstances, I probably would have dropped a few expletives, too.https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOU9KJAzor/?taken-by=east_side_tv
This image attributed to NASA/Steven Seipel via. CollectSpace.First the Cape Canaveral Navaho, now ET-GVTA. A bad few months for space artifacts. - Ed Kyle
Quote from: edkyle99 on 02/08/2017 06:32 pmThis image attributed to NASA/Steven Seipel via. CollectSpace.First the Cape Canaveral Navaho, now ET-GVTA. A bad few months for space artifacts. - Ed KyleBased on the last two pictures above, it seems the tank got loose from the moorings and rolled over the truck, bounced over the elevated fuel lines and landed on the other side of that. I will post an overhead picture of what I think occurred.The Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.
Well, looks like this tank got to fly after all...Too bad for this piece of historical hardware but museum stuff should not be displayed outdoors IMO.
The Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.
Quote from: catdlr on 02/09/2017 01:58 amThe Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.Imagine the insurance form for that truck:"Cause of damage? Crushed by space shuttle tank."
Quote from: woods170 on 02/09/2017 07:03 amWell, looks like this tank got to fly after all...Too bad for this piece of historical hardware but museum stuff should not be displayed outdoors IMO.You're making the mistake of calling it "displayed." It was just stored there, rotting. It's only museum stuff if a museum asks for it and NASA gives it to them or if NASA forms an exhibit in place. Something the size of an ET, though historic, is impractical for nearly every museum out there. There's a lot of hardware that meets a similar fate: "someone" should preserve, archive, and display it, but it never happens.
...instead of "abandon in place".
February 9, 2017: NASA Status Update on Tornado Recovery at Michoud Assembly FacilityThe facility will remain closed to all work activities through Sunday, allowing recovery efforts to continue at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans following the tornado strike on Feb. 7 at 11:25 a.m. CST. The site is accessible only to emergency and essential personnel. The facilities teams are working swiftly to transition from emergency state to restore continuity of operations, with a desire to bring tenants and NASA activities back up safely and methodically. The teams on-site have made good progress in their continued damage assessments and restoration work. Visual damage assessment are ongoing. Power has been restored to key substations, the main NASA administration building, and the U.S. Coast Guard facilities with further progress is expected today. All events, conferences, and other non-essential functions have been postponed indefinitely until safe and normal operations resume.Last Updated: Feb. 9, 2017
Our Michoud facility reopened today, but recovery efforts from last week's tornado are ongoing. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/2l7s1Z4
Multiple vortices. Yikes! Quote from: psloss on 02/07/2017 10:34 pmSaw this video on the Weather Channel...there's some NSFW language in the audio...under the circumstances, I probably would have dropped a few expletives, too.https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOU9KJAzor/?taken-by=east_side_tv
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 6m6 minutes agoHill shows this figure of the tornado damage to Michoud in February affecting SLS work:
Marcia Smith @SpcPlcyOnline 5m5 minutes agoHill summary chart of tornado damage to Michoud.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 8m8 minutes agoHill: if the tornado’s path had shifted just a bit, it would have gone right over Bldg 103, would have been out of business for a while.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 6m6 minutes agoHill: asking for a supplemental [appropriaitons] to cover repair costs; for now paying for them out of SLS.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 5m5 minutes agoBill Gerstenmaier: we were really surprised by the amount of damage by tornado. Major disruption to overall schedule at Michoud.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 4m4 minutes agoHill: another Michoud building, leased to USDA, heavily damaged by tornado; “uninhabitable” now.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 2m2 minutes agoHill: Orion service module and SLS core stage “neck and neck” for being the critical path for EM-1 launch. Tornado cost 2-3 months on SLS.
On March 30 2017, wind in the New Orleans area removed temporary protective covering placed over parts of the exterior wall of Building 110 at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility after the Feb. 7 tornado. This resulted in a fine rain mist on Space Launch System manufacturing tooling including the Vehicle Assembly Center and test articles in the building. NASA and Boeing, the SLS prime contractor for the core stage, are evaluating the situation and developing a process to wipe down the hardware using procedures developed under similar situations experienced during space shuttle external tank manufacturing. Michoud management is looking at ways to fasten the temporary protective covering more securely until permanent repairs are made.
