October 2023

White Sands Test Facility
Our calibration team supports mission critical testing for the International Space Station and other NASA space exploration efforts, and helps to safeguard the lives and equipment used in these high risk endeavors.  Calibration is a critical step for all instrumentation used in our testing and ensures that the data received from calibrated instrume
Posted October 14, 2023
White Sands Test Facility
Our Materials flight acceptance workforce performs NASA Technical Standard “Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements  and Test Procedures”, NASA-STD-6001 and related customized testing designed to verify space flight materials and system performance with a focus on ensuring safety during manned space flights.
Posted October 14, 2023
White Sands Test Facility
Since the inception of the technology in the 1970s, White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) has been at the forefront of NASA’s testing and evaluation of composite pressure components, building on unique strengths in Oxygen Systems, Propellants and Aerospace Fluids, Hypervelocity Impact Testing, and Materials Flight Acceptance testing.
Posted October 14, 2023
White Sands Test Facility
The safety and performance of hazardous propellant systems is a main focus at White Sands Test Facility. Our workforce conducts laboratory micro-analysis to full-scale field explosion tests.
Posted October 14, 2023
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA and industry partners Aerojet Rocketdyne and Boeing have installed all four RS-25 engines onto the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the agency’s Artemis II mission, signaling the core stage is nearing completion. Once complete, the core stage will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted October 13, 2023
Artemis
Artemis 1
Humans in Space
The International Academy of Astronautics has awarded its 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement award to the international team that supported NASA’s Artemis I mission. The academy presented the award Oct.
Posted October 13, 2023
Carlos I. Noriega
Johnson's Mission Control Center
In this image from Jan. 15, 2003, astronaut Carlos I. Noriega, spacecraft communicator, smiles while sitting at his console in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. At the time this photo was taken, astronauts Kenneth D. Bowersox and Donald R.
Posted October 13, 2023
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