First the crew lowered the pipe — 21 inches wide and weighing a million pounds — into the water through a hole in the ship. (discovermagazine.com)
«Not only does this test mark an important step towards proving our existing design for SLS's first flight,» said Steve Wofford, engines manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the SLS Program is managed for the agency, «but it's also a great feeling that this engine that has carried so many astronauts into space before is being prepared to take astronauts to space once again on SLS's first crewed flight.» (sciencedaily.com)
HB - SIA is set to take off for a historic first crewed night flight in 2010. (newscientist.com)