The space agency worked with OceanGate to build the carbon fiber pressure vessel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
The partnership was forged under the Space Act of 1958, which allows NASA to help stimulate commercial manufacturing that could in turn benefit the space agency in future missions.
The manufacturing of the carbon fiber and titanium submersible, in turn, helped NASA engineers gather more data on the development of vehicles that can survive under high pressure.was created using aerospace grade carbon fiber, reducing its weight to about a fraction of what other deep diving crewed submersibles weigh, according toThe 22 foot-long craft weighs 23,000 pounds and is capable of going as deep as 19,800 feet below water.
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