The twin towers of a 215-foot-tall structural test stand for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the world's most powerful rocket for human space exploration, take shape at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. After construction is completed, hydraulic cylinders at Test Stand 4693 will push and pull the liquid hydrogen tank of the SLS’s massive core stage to subject the tank and hardware to the same loads and stresses they will endure during launch. Test Stand 4693 is being built in Marshall's West Test Area on the foundation of the stand where the Apollo Saturn V F-1 engine was tested during the 1960s. (Photo courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie)
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This image from Expedition 31 aboard the International Space Station shows a panoramic view of Iran that includes the Gulf of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz, mountains, desert and salt pans.
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We're featuring images from all teams competing in the 2014 World Cup in our "Go World! NASA 2014 World Cup" Flickr album: www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157645185849473/
More Expedition 31 images:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-31/ndxp...
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
Crew Earth Observations on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157621443555137/
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Artist concept of NASA's J-2X rocket engine, dated November 2010.
NASA's J-2X is an efficient and versatile rocket engine, offering the ideal thrust and performance characteristics to power the upper stage of a heavy-lift launch vehicle. Hardware for the first engine is being assembled at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and at numerous subcontractor locations across the country, with testing anticipated at NASA's Stennis Space Center in early 2011.
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There's a Flickr photoset about the J-2X egnine development, if you'd like to know more: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625345364038/
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Day 197. Storming at the heel of the boot. #BuonaNotte #GoodNight from @space_station! #YearInSpace
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