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The hardware we are looking at it is

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called the MPCV Stage

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Adapter. It’s a piece of

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hardware that we

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are going to use on a test

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flight to adapt the Orion

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Capsule to a Delta heavy launch

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vehicle. So since

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this is flight hardware

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the moving operations

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are very critical, because

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it’s only one flight

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asset and we want to make

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sure that we treat it

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and take care of it so we don’t

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damage it. So what

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we did to flip it is we

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put the MSA hardware

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on an assembly jig which is

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to keep the ring

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stable. Then we mounted it

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with blocks and then

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used a Possi-turner machine to

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flip the MSA 108

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degrees to be able to put it

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on a seven axis milling

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machine. All the different

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bolts that were used

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for the planting mechanism

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needed to be clamped to a

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specific torque to make sure

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that it was

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fastened correctly, but at the

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same time we don’t

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want to over torque it so we

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end up damaging the

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hardware. So, there is a

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specific torque value

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that you want to make sure that

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it’s safe in

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place, but like I say, don’t

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damage the hardware!

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So my involvement with the

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project was the

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flipping of the fixture, so the

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tool that we used to flip

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the MSA was an existing tool

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that we had but it had to be modified in

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order to accommodate to

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the MSA. So I was involved

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with the design of

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the blocks and the clamps

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that were used to put the

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MSA on the tool that we used

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to flip. So today I

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saw some of my work in

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operation…it was great

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to have something that went

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from my design board

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to the actual manufacturing

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and then to be used on

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a piece of flight hardware.

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So what they will do on

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the milling machine is they

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will machine both the

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forward and the aft flanges of the

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adapter and then they will

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put all the flight holes and those

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will be used to mount the MSA