This paper presents the Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC's) vision to manufacture, increase safety and reduce the cost of launch vehicles. Nondestructive evaluations of large composite structures are tested for space transportation at MSFC. The topics include: 1) 6 1/2 Generations of Airplanes in a Century; 2) Shuttle Safety Upgrades; 3) Generations of Reusable Launch Vehicles; 4) RLV Technology Demonstration Path; 5) Second Generation; 6) Key NASA Requirements; 7) X-33 Elements; 8) Future-X Pathfinder Projects and Experiments; 9) Focus Area Technical Goals; 10) X-34 Expanded View; 11) X-38 Spacecraft with De-Orbit Propulsion Stage (DPS); 12) Deorbit Module (DM) Critical Design Review (CDR) Design; 13) Forward Structural Adapter (FSA) CDR Design; 14) X-38 DPS CDR Design; 15) RLV Focused Propulsion Technologies; and 16) Challenges in Technology. This paper is presented in viewgraph form.
Manufacturing and NDE of Large Composite Structures for Space Transportation at MSFC
2000
41 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Composite structures , Manufacturing , Nondestructive tests , Reusable launch vehicles , Space transportation , Cost reduction , Design analysis , X-33 reusable launch vehicle , X-34 reusable launch vehicle , X-38 crew return vehicle , Aerospace safety , Ultrasonics , Acoustic emission
Large space structures activity at MSFC
AIAA | 1980
|NASA/MSFC Large Space Structures Ground Test Facility
NTRS | 1991
|NASA/MSFC Large Space Structures Ground Test Facility
AIAA | 1991
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