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Forum:	Exploration: Moon to Mars
Topic:	[Discuss] Gateway lunar orbit outpost

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has revealed before Congress that both habitable volumes of the Gateway that have been delivered were corroded, the result of different metal alloys coming in contact with each other. Thales Alenia, which built HALO's pressure vessel for Northrop Grumman (as well as Axiom's core space station module) has now admitted to knowing such: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Our teams are working hand in hand with our longstanding customer Northrop Grumman to ensure that the HALO module fully meets the mission's requirements, using NASA-approved processes. A well-known metallurgical behavior was found at the surface of the module, which will be fixed by the end of the third quarter of 2026. As for Lunar I-HAB, which is still in our facilities to date, we are also teaming up with ESA to fix soon the same related issue. Our company, together with its customers and partners, is used to face and solve this kind of situations, in this very-challenging space environment. As an example, a metallurgical behavior of this kind occurred decades ago during the manufacturing of elements for the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS' pressurized modules have proved to be highly performant, and continue to operate reliably, exceeding their original expected lifespan. With nearly 50% of the ISS' pressurized volume built by our company still functioning after 25 years, we leverage this experience to address the current situation with agility, expertise and full technical control. At this time, further comments would be premature. For more information, please refer to Northrop Grumman for HALO and ESA for Lunar I-HAB.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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