Good Vibrations! NASA Launch Simulation Tests Megarocket Experience

Launch conditions are never easy so engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have already begun simulations of the first crewed launch of the Orion spacecraft on the agency's new megarocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Inside a JSC lab this month, NASA's human factor engineers combined the many aspects of an Orion-SLS launch for the first time. "This was the first time this key hardware was brought together to evaluate how launch vibrations may impact the astronaut's abil