That's the white room?
Yes it is. Here's the text to go with the photos:
Workers install the White Room to the end of the Crew Access Arm at a construction yard in Oak Hill, Florida, as part of work on a new Crew Access Tower. The arm will be connected next year to the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station adjacent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The tower and access arm are structures being built to support human flight crews and ground support staff for missions by Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Boeing and NASA's Commercial Crew Program are developing the Starliner to take astronauts to the International Space Station.Gallery of photos is here:
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/gallery/Gallery-index.html
Nice progress!
But for some reason the closeup of the white-room makes it look like one of this IKEA "mini-apartment" displays in their stores, complete with some of their bookcases.
Hopefully this Ikea mini-apartment is more flame-resistant than average.
Updating one of my earlier public-side renders of CST-100 at the station, incorporating recent Starliner changes!
Beautiful, now my desktop wallpaper
Heh, and with a cargo Dragon hiding around under the station I see
Updating one of my earlier public-side renders of CST-100 at the station, incorporating recent Starliner changes!
A little bit off topic. Maybe you should move the canadarm2 in your rendering because it go through the trunk of the cargo dragon.
Here's something interesting: Tory Bruno says on Twitter that CST-100 will launch on an Atlas V 412.
https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/668081787105468416.@ethan829 @KaiFarrimondXD 412. sorry about the typo
I don't know if this is old news and I just missed it, but I thought we had previously heard that it would use the 422.
Press release:
Aerojet Rocketdyne Signs Contract to Support New Era of Human Spaceflight for AmericaSACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 23, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), has signed a contract with Boeing valued at nearly $200 million that supports a new era of spaceflight - one that will carry humans to the International Space Station (ISS) from American soil once again. Under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) subcontract to Boeing, Aerojet Rocketdyne is completing the design, development, qualification, certification and initial production of the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 "Starliner" service module propulsion system.
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Under the CCtCap contract, Aerojet Rocketdyne will provide seven shipsets of hardware with options for additional shipsets. Each production hardware shipset will include four Launch Abort Engines (LAEs), 24 Orbital Maneuvering and Attitude Control (OMAC) engines, 28 Reaction Control System (RCS) engines, 164 valves, 12 tanks and more than 500 feet of ducts, lines and tubing. Boeing will assemble hardware kits into the service module section of the CST-100 spacecraft at its Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aerojet Rocketdyne also provides hardware supporting the Qualification Test Vehicle; Service Module hot fire testing, which will take place at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico; the orbital flight test, which will be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida; and Pad Abort testing, which will occur at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The CST-100 is scheduled to deliver astronauts to the ISS for NASA, beginning in 2017.
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http://www.rocket.com/article/aerojet-rocketdyne-signs-contract-support-new-era-human-spaceflight-america
Here's something interesting: Tory Bruno says on Twitter that CST-100 will launch on an Atlas V 412.
https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/668081787105468416
.@ethan829 @KaiFarrimondXD 412. sorry about the typo
I don't know if this is old news and I just missed it, but I thought we had previously heard that it would use the 422.
It is a 422. Just another typo.
Update by John Mulholland:
Update by John Mulholland:
Thanks for taking the time to post all of these presentations.
Nice progress!
But for some reason the closeup of the white-room makes it look like one of this IKEA "mini-apartment" displays in their stores, complete with some of their bookcases.
Today's pic from ULA Orbital launch is interesting.
they using 3 clean rooms?
Nice progress!
But for some reason the closeup of the white-room makes it look like one of this IKEA "mini-apartment" displays in their stores, complete with some of their bookcases.
Today's pic from ULA Orbital launch is interesting.
they using 3 clean rooms?
Those aren't whiteroom/cleanrooms
Nice progress!
But for some reason the closeup of the white-room makes it look like one of this IKEA "mini-apartment" displays in their stores, complete with some of their bookcases.
Today's pic from ULA Orbital launch is interesting.
they using 3 clean rooms?
Those aren't whiteroom/cleanrooms
It's the elevator shaft.
They can only install some of the shaftwall during prefabrication. It should get fully enclosed eventually.
