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One 'Giant Leap' for Manufacturing

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Austin Weber
July 19, 2019

Fifty years ago,  assembly lines stretching from Long Island to Los Angeles produced millions of complex parts that made the first moon landing possible.


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Shape-Memory Alloys Help NASA Create New Wing Design

Shape-Memory Alloys Help NASA Create New Wing Design

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Austin Weber
March 5, 2018

The key to Orville and Wilbur Wright’s historic 1903 flight was wing warping. Today, NASA engineers are developing a similar technique to increase the performance and efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft.


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NASA Installs Giant Robot for Composites Assembly

November 6, 2014

HAMPTON, VA—NASA’s Langley Research Center has installed a huge six-axis robot that will be used to deposit epoxy and carbon fibers for making aerospace structures and parts.


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NASA Completes 170-Foot-Tall Welding Machine

September 8, 2014

WASHINGTON—NASA’s new Vertical Assembly Center, a 170-foot-high machine that will be used to assemble elements of the agency’s Space Launch System, is ready to weld parts for the rocket that will send humans to an asteroid and Mars.


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NASA Tests Rocket Engine Parts Made Via 3D Printing

September 3, 2014

HUNTSVILLE, AL—NASA has successfully tested complex rocket engine parts produced with the additive manufacturing process laser metal sintering.


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NASA Patents Laser Welding System

January 9, 2013

WASHINGTON—NASA has received a patent for devising a “dynamically variable spot size” system for use in laser welding and laser brazing of metal components.


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