Time-Lapse of Orions Heat Shield Shipping from NASA Marshall to NASA Langley

In this time-lapse video, captured from May 26-28 in Building 4705 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, technicians and engineers work together to remove the heat shield from the seven-axis milling machine to a tractor-trailer for shrink-wrapping and shipment to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The heat shield underwent nearly 3 months of post-flight testing after its successful flight attached to the Orion spacecraft in late 2014. The heat shield will now tra