Work is now underway at the advanced composite aero structures manufacturing company, Strata, is to expand its current manufacturing facilities in Abu Dhabi to take on board the assembly of the Boeing ...

The Vertical Assembly Facility at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. WASHINGTON — Boeing Space Exploration of Houston is about three months behind schedule on a giant welding tool to ...

When Kelley Easley first arrived at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in 1982 everything was big. Bigger than anything he had ever seen. Easley was a young Louisiana State University engineering ...

Ginger Barnes is well aware of the symbolic directional contrast between her previous job as chief executive of United Space Alliance (USA), the now-defunct space shuttle operator, and her current ...

Boeing’s new plans to finish the first assembly of a NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage horizontally are set to culminate in the use of several new and modified tools to help do something to ...

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is now nearly six decades old—it was formally created on July 1, 1962 as a separate entity from Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Construction began soon after. At ...

Boeing opened a new 787 vertical fin assembly line at its production facility in Salt Lake City. Operated by Boeing Fabrication, the 35,000 sq. ft. composite assembly line will build the vertical fin ...

NASA and prime contractor Boeing have reworked the final assembly plan for the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage to bring the scheduled completion date back to the end of 2019. With the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chemical manufacturing underpins modern civilization – fuels, plastics, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals all rely on it. Yet many legacy production routes exact heavy tolls on the ...

As spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record—nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA’s Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last ...