NASA astronaut flyby
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this video from the cockpit with Victor Glover as they and fellow astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Stephanie Wilson banked low over Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama, saluting to teams finishing construction of Test Stand 4697. (NASA caption/photo)
NASA astronaut Don Pettit took the video below from the cockpit with Victor Glover as they and fellow astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Stephanie Wilson banked low over Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., saluting the teams finishing construction of Test Stand 4697.
In the short video edited by Pettit, viewers fly along from the astronauts' takeoff in two NASA T-38 jets from Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston to their landing at Huntsville International Airport for meetings at Marshall.
NASA has spent about $75 million building two large stands at Marshall to stress test the fuel tanks it will use to power the Space Launch System. The taller of the two will "shake, rattle and roll" the liquid hydrogen fuel tank to make sure it can withstand the stress of launch. The smaller stand, Test Stand 4697, will test the liquid oxygen tank.