Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, move the largest piece of structural test hardware for America's new space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), from the factory to the dock for loading onto NASA's barge Pegasus, 14 December 2018. The liquid hydrogen tank test article will make its way to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where dozens of hydraulic cylinders in Test Stand 4693 will subjecting it to the same stresses and loads it will endure during liftoff and flight. An optimised version of an original NASA image. Credit: NASA/SSeipel

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