06/13/2016
Explore the Space Power Facility (SPF) at NASA Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio! Engineers test spacecraft hardware here in conditions similar to those during launch and in space.
We are standing in the world's largest vacuum chamber! It takes 8 hours to remove all of the air, and allows simulation of the extreme cold of space at the same time as the extreme heat of sunlight. This chamber also appeared in opening scenes of Marvel's 2012 film, "The Avengers".