Orion Capsule Weld Sets Record
By Frank Morring, Jr.
A circumferential friction stir weld used to join the two halves of a test article for NASA’s proposed Orion crew capsule is the longest ever accomplished, demonstrating the manufacturing advances achieved in the U.S. space agency’s troubled Constellation program.
Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans used a Universal Weld ...
