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MAF Roadmap: Preparing the SLS first core stages for testing and flight
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Re: MAF Roadmap: Preparing the SLS first core stages for testing and flight
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Just to clarify, NASA does use metric. It is both US law and NASA policy to use it "except where impractical." All new programs and projects (since the mid 2000s) use metric.
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/functions/standards/isu.html
The reason it's "impractical" for the SLS is the use of Shuttle heritage parts, all of the documentation for which use feet, inches, mils.
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Some good Instagram photos of the core construction
Instagram.com/reneehortonphd
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Using a robot to weld the holes left by the other welding robot.
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Quote from: rayleighscatter on 12/21/2016 11:12 pm
Using a robot to weld the holes left by the other welding robot.
Related NASA.gov feature:
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/plug-into-NASA-SLS-fuel-tank
I
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that's Vito Neal over on the far left monitoring the FSW tool (well, this FSW tool, there's more than one)...would make sense as he said he was a trained operator in our story; thread for that here:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41851.0
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