NASA tensile strength machine - photos

[Altair]

Tensile strength machine at NASA's Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center), c. 1967.

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Previously:

1964 NASA tensile machine crack toughness test - photo
1963 NASA clean room tig welder - photo
1944 metallurgy supercharger - photo
1951 NACA 20-inch compressor in lathe - photo
1954 NASA chemist - photo

[NeiljohnUK]

Fair size machines, that quad ball screw designs pretty much the most stable type, worked on/built those and twin screw units in the past, got some bigger ones here at work for testing building materials sat on the top of our never fuelled reactor as it was the only place strong enough to house them.