The duration of my Summer 2015 Internship Tour at NASA's Johnson Space Center was spent working in the Structural Engineering Division's Structures Branch. One of the two main roles of the Structures Branch, ES2, is to ensure the structural integrity of spacecraft vehicles and the structural subsystems needed to support those vehicles. The other main objective of this branch is to develop the lightweight structures that are necessary to take humans beyond Low-Earth Orbit. Within ES2, my four projects involved inflatable space structure air bladder material testing; thermal and impact material testing for spacecraft windows; structural analysis on a joint used in the Boeing CST-100 airbag system; and an additive manufacturing design project.


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    Title :

    Space Structure Development


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    USRA Summer 2015 Internship ; 2015 ; Houston, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-06-08


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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