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It may not look like much right now but

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right behind me the Vertical Assembly

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Building, one of the largest and most

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precise welding machines is about to

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take shape.

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The vertical assembly center will be

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about 175 feet tall; in fact, it qualifies as

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a skyscraper for the building code.

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It weighs about three million pounds

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and it is made so that we can produce

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Space Launch System tanks propellant

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tanks with the highest degree of

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precision in the most affordable way

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possible. We will be making both liquid

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hydrogen and the liquid oxygen tanks

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at the vehicle assembly center.

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We had to create a very  strong

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foundation for it which took a while.

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Now we are ready to build the tower

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elements and finally put the

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welding element back in. This will take

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shape over the next few weeks.