TABLE OF CONTENTS 22 THE ROCKET MAKERS It’s the kind of engineering challenge and journey of exploration that fires the imagination, just as the Apollo moon landing program did in the 1960s. Today, across the enterprise, a diverse “One Boeing” team of employees is helping build a powerful new rocket that will make possible missions into deep space, perhaps even one day to Mars. The Space Launch System rocket is far more powerful and advanced than the Saturn V that hurled the Apollo spacecraft toward the moon. At NASA’s vast Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Boeing employees are using the latest technology and innovation to construct the rocket’s massive first stage, which is more than 200 feet (60 meters) tall and 27 feet (8 meters) wide. COVER: JAY SCHMITT, A QUALITY SPECIALIST FOR THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM, INSPECTS A NEWLY WELDED BARREL FOR THE ROCKET’S CORE STAGE AT NASA’S MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY. BOB FERGUSON/BOEING PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ARTIST’S CONCEPT OF THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM. BOEING 04 Frontiers February 2014
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