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Forum:Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic:[SLS] Vehicle Assembly Building modifications
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Robert PearlmanNASA photo release
Final Work Platform Lifted into Place for NASA's Space Launch System

The installation of the final topmost level completes the 10 levels of work platforms, 20 platform halves altogether, that will surround NASA's Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft and allow access during processing for missions, including the first uncrewed flight test of Orion atop the SLS rocket in 2018.

The A platforms will provide access to the Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System for Orion lifting sling removal and installation of the closeout panels. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program, with support from the center's Engineering Directorate, is overseeing upgrades to the VAB, including the installation of the work platforms.

Robert PearlmanNASA video
NASA and contractor platform team members talk about the design, planning and installation of ten levels of new work platforms in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Twenty platform halves will surround and provide access to NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft during processing.

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