NASA / AMRO Fabricating Corporation
Just thought I'd share these images of two components for the Orion spacecraft that are currently being built at facilities in California and Illinois, respectively. These segments, the 'barrel' and 'cone panels,' are part of seven welded pieces that will be combined at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, to form the pressure vessel on the capsule. Once completed, the pressure vessel will then be transported to the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, Lockheed Martin will outfit the vessel and complete the Orion spacecraft that will fly on 2024's Artemis 3 mission...which will hopefully see the first woman and next man setting foot on the Moon.
AMRO Fabricating Corp. at El Monte, California, and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. in Illinois are responsible for fabricating components for the Orion's pressure vessel. I only live about 30 minutes from El Monte... I wonder if AMRO gives tours of its facilities so I can check out the Orion components for myself? Probably not!
NASA / Ingersoll Machine Tools
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