Live NASA Test
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This Rocketry 101 lesson is behind a test at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center this week on a device some NASA wags are calling "the world's biggest can cruncher." During Wednesday's test, a 20-foot-tall, 27-foot-wide cylinder simulating a rocket's shell and made of aluminum and lithium will be squeezed between two platforms with a million pounds of force until it buckles.
If that sounds as much fun to you as it does to NASA engineers and news reporters, you can watch on NASA-TV (http://www.nasa.gov/ntv) or on Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc) Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.