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Railroad helps NASA shoot for the moon

机译:铁路帮助NASA为月球拍摄

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After the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) sold off most of the NASA Railroad's rolling stock, including its three locomotives. The inventory reduction made it unlikely the railroad - which hauled the large solid rocket boosters used in the Shuttle program - would operate again. That all changed last month, when two solid rocket boosters for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) that will help power the first Artemis flight test mission around the moon arrived via train at KSC in Merritt Island, Florida. On June 5, a train carrying the two boosters - each made up of five, 180-ton booster segments loaded on specially fitted rail cars - departed the Northrop Grumman manufacturing plant in Promontory, Utah, for a 10-day, 2,800-mile trip to Florida's Space Coast. Then, on June 15, NASA received transfer of the segments at the Jay-Jay Rail Yard in Titusville, Florida. The same shuttlewagon that once moved the Space Shuttle's rocket boosters into KSC was used to move the segments - along the same tracks - into the space center's Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF). There, the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team will prepare the segments for assembly by offloading them from the rail cars.
机译:航天飞机计划于2011年退休后,肯尼迪航天中心(KSC)售罄的大部分NASA铁路的滚动库存,包括其三个机车。库存减少使其不太可能铁路 - 拖运了梭子节目中使用的大型固体火箭助推器 - 将再次运行。全部更改了上个月,当时美国航空航天局的空间发射系统(SLS)的两个坚固的火箭助推器,这将有助于为月球上的第一个Astemis飞行测试任务提供动力,通过火车在佛罗里达州Merritt Island的Ksc来到。 6月5日,一辆携带两台助推器的火车 - 每个由五个,180吨的助推器段组成,在特殊安装的轨道车上装载 - 在犹他州海角地区的北北甘曼制造厂举行了10天,2,800英里之旅到佛罗里达的太空海岸。然后,在6月15日,美国国家航空航天局获得了佛罗里达州Titusville的杰伊杰伊铁轨的转移。曾经将航天飞机的火箭助推器转移到KSC中的相同班车档被用来移动段 - 沿着相同的轨道 - 进入空间中心的旋转,加工和浪涌设施(RPSF)。在那里,勘探地面系统(EGS)团队将通过将它们从铁路车卸载来准备组装段。

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