How to build a Spaceship? What is a Spaceship? A spaceship is a means of traveling through space. This video will show you how they built NASA's Orion spaceship inside the factory at Kennedy Space Center. Building a Spaceship following the steps below: Step 1: You need to determine the purpose of building the spaceship. For example, where do you want the spaceship to go? How much does the spaceship weigh? Step 2: You design the shape, size, and special equipment of the spaceship. Step 3: You analyze the physical, chemical, etc factors that affect the spacecraft during its journey. For example, aerodynamics, flight performance,... Step 4: You need to design a prototype of the spaceship by computer. Then build actual parts and test their performance, vibration, and heat resistance. Components that do not meet performance requirements need redesign and re-testing. Step 5: You build a spaceship according to a design that has passed all the tests.
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When you're building the only human rated capsule designed for deep space exploration,
some assembly is required. Now extreme goals require extreme design, much of which happens
in different parts of the world. So where does Orion finally get put together? We are in the
Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center. This is where most
of Orion's systems finally get put together. This place also has incredible historical significance.
It was built back in 1964 and was used during the Apollo program to test the command, service,
and lunar modules. Today it's leased and operated by Lockheed Martin, who's building the Orion
vehicle, NASA's first spacecraft designed for long duration human rated deep space exploration.
This is where Orion's system components like the life support system, the propellant system,
and avionics are added to the vehicle structure. But many of these parts were created elsewhere.
For example, the vehicle structure, also known as the Orion pressure vessel,
was created at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. This is the foundation on which
all of the spacecraft systems and subsystems are built. Engineers at Michoud assembled the structure
using seven large aluminum pieces and then welded them together with a high-tech welding method
called friction stir welding. Once this process was complete, the pressure vessel was shipped to
the Operations and Checkout Building and NASA's Super Guppy aircraft. Here the pressure vessel
was tested to ensure that it did in fact provide a safely sealed environment for astronauts who
will ride in future Orion capsules. Then subsystems were integrated onto the pressure vessel to create
a nearly complete Orion vehicle called the short stack. They're all shipped to KSC for assembly
because this is a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of the Space Coast with the workforce
and the tools trained and designed exactly for this. After assembly, the short stack will be
shipped to the Plum Brook Station Test Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center for vacuum and
acoustic testing and then it's sent back to KSC to prepare for launch. Ultimately, this vehicle
will take astronauts into deep space to places like the moon and Mars. But before it flies humans,
Orion will complete a flight without crew known as Exploration Mission 1 where it will launch
with NASA's Space Launch System, the SLS, for the very first time. SLS will be the most powerful
rocket ever built and on its first flight it will send Orion on a trip around the moon so it can
fully test all of its systems in the environment of deep space. And then from there, Orion can start
sending humans on long-duration deep space destinations and could be used in conjunction
with even more ambitious projects like NASA's Deep Space Gateway, a proposed spaceport in lunar orbit
where astronauts study the moon up close and train for longer farther out missions. This room has
ties to historic milestones of NASA's past but today the work that's being done here will propel
our space program to places humans have never ventured before. I'm Emily Calandrelli and this
has been your Spotlight on Space.
