Ground is Cleared at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Ground is cleared at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as building begins in July 2014 on Test Stand 4697 -- one of two structural test stands under construction at Marshall that are critical to development of the Space Launch System. SLS will be the world's most powerful rocket for human space exploration, able to carry astronauts in the Orion spacecraft on deep-space missions, including the journey to Mars.

The 85-foot-tall Test Stand 4697 will use hydraulic cylinders to subject the liquid oxygen tank and hardware of the massive SLS core stage to the same loads and stresses it will endure during a launch. Construction on the test stand is scheduled for completion in 2016 by prime contractor Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Alabama, and several of its subcontractors. (Photo courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie)

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