MEXICO: A giant robot is helping NASA engineers to build the largest, lightweight composite rocket parts ever developed for future space vehicles to deeper manned missions including Mars exploration.
The robot installed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama, is one of the largest composites manufacturing robots created in America, the US space agency said.
“This addition to Marshall’s Composites Technology Centre provides modern technology to develop low-cost and high-speed manufacturing processes for making large composite rocket structures,” said Preston Jones, deputy director of Marshall’s Engineering Directorate.
“We will build and test these structures to determine if they are a good fit for space vehicles that will carry humans on exploration missions to Mars and other places,” said Jones.
It takes a myriad of different materials to build a space vehicle like NASA’s new Space Launch System, a heavy-lift rocket designed to take explorers on deep space missions.
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