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NASA- SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEMS| Michoud Assembly Facility- Massive fuel tank done in sixty seconds- Built

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As the build up to the “NASA’s Space Launch Systems” in preparations in returning back to the moon Luna, then towards the rusty orange Planet Mars, with ongoing efforts in establishing an outpost on research, exploration, commercial, also tourism on those two… as the First Test flight of the Constellation Program – SLS is underway for the for the launch calendar year 2018, no later than November launch window… on a re-built-recondition Launch complex –LC 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida that was once launched by the STS- Space Transportation Systems, The Space Shuttle program- the Work Truck of NASA.. With the Orion command module on-board to test the full stack of its systems before a manned test flight to see if any other modifications, tweaking, and turning are required to rebuild another variant of the original SLS rocket..

In this see that preparations of a forty meter long SLS liquid hydrogen fuel tank constructed with a new tooling systems at Vehicle Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans…. In where this major component is of the first stage in which it takes up least two thirds of sixty five meter first stage among its other component in which stores the Liquid Oxygen in where the two it feeds the powerful four RS-25 engines that was once used on the Tri-cluster Space Shuttle Main Engines, now heavily modified for the SLS program, also with a pair five segmentation SRB’s Solid Rocket Boosters on each sides.. Using the same design heritage from the STS-Space Shuttle program..

Apart from the forty meter Liquid Hydrogen tank is the testing for flight qualification to see whether to see if it sustains to any form of extreme stresses that may be impose on it to see if any other modifications learning experiences  that are learn from that testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama…     

NASA | SLS – Space Launch System…… what’s to come..

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As the timetable is set to return to the moon, then onwards to Mars then onwards to Jupiter and Saturn, “NASA” also it with its partners, are construction of one of the most powerful rockets ever built, it’s call the Space Launch System, it’s the successor to the Space Transport System in which its larger more powerful than any other complex engine system that NASA has constructed since the Apollo Program as this animation explains..

It’s component construction is diverted out from the Space Shuttle STS design heritage tooling systems, noticing the external longer Tank with the most notable five segment Solid Rocket boosters also in carrying on with the tradition of  having an Orion Command module on its upper stage carrying up to four crew onboard.. as a multi-purpose, or role space craft.. also the vehicle is designed to carry larger payloads than the STS-Space Shuttle program, in which that payload could variant in mission purpose type… in view it should be interesting to see the other variants extreme heavy’s of the SLS in the developing missions to come..

NASA- ORION | EFT-1 First test flight – that first amazing flight would look like..?

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In about two days’ time least, or days hours,  the very first steps in returning back to the moon… with the first test flight one on a “NASA”  Orion spacecraft is called an “Exploration Flight Test one” a unmanned test article in which  will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida,  on fourth December 2014, on a flight where it will test all parts of the Deployment systems on a Delta four heavy rockets with dual sides boosters, with a central core in which that will deploy the second stage to the orbit the Earth twice higher than any other vehicle use since the Apollo program, the first manned Luna missions to the moon in that 1973 year..

As NASA’s Deputy for flight test integration of the Orion program, Jay Estes explains the process of the first flight also its main goal is test out the systems out from the service module , also the heat shielding…  in which it lands in the Pacific ocean with a series of parachutes to stage it’s descent.. With the recovery of the United States Navy to do the recovery operations of the Orion –EFT-1.. .

Watch here for live coverage of the “NASA’s Orion exploration first test flight on NASA Television…!”

DOCTOR WHO- NASA | Colin Baker – I’m onboard Orion..?

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As for the preparation process for ”NASA” Space Launch System- constellation moon program”… There’s a test Launch in preparation in testing the Orion command module (OFT-1- Orion test flight) also its connected propulsion stage unit…  In which that test launch is on in between windowed fourth to sixth December 2014… to test flight the operations systems onboard and out of been connected to a modified Delta four heavy rocket… on testing several items on separation, avionics, heat shielding parachuting…

As for the campaigning, there’s been numerous celebrities endorsing the “I’m onboard” like Actress” Michelle Nichols” whom played Commander Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, Also you can have your “name ticketing on that first flight on Orion or the follow on Mars” you could have your name on that flight… in this Actor Colin Baker- the Sixth Doctor of Doctor Who. On board on the centric theme of Doctor who, having the Orion Command module slightly larger than the Apollo CM module inside with the Orion going through the time and space time vortex. Also telling your companions or friends about the NASA’s Orion program…with the emphasis on the the Tardis blue ….