Crews at Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, complete a 250-foot-long metal canopy for NASA's Pegasus barge.
Crews at Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, complete a 250-foot-long metal canopy for NASA’s Pegasus barge. The vessel will be used to transport the massive core stage of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System. The core stage, towering more than 200 feet tall with a diameter of 27.6 feet, will store cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that will feed the vehicle’s RS-25 engines. The final modifications, testing, closeout and delivery of Pegasus are scheduled for completion this summer. For more on Pegasus, click here.
Image credit: NASA/Michoud/Steven Seipel