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NASA joins structures to form top of Space Launch System core stage

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NASA’s behemoth booster designed to send astronauts on expeditions into deep space is starting to take shape.

Engineers at the space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed the “forward join” connecting structures to form the top part of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage.

The forward join connected three structures: the forward skirt, the liquid oxygen tank and the intertank.

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