Houston, TX, USA, 11/4/99: Sweco Fab, Inc., the ASME CODE fabrication subsidiary of PT&P, built the forward section of an International Space Station service module for NASA in Fall, 1999. The main purpose for the full-scale mock-up service module will be to replicate the International Space Station for use in astronaut training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL). 

Figure 1: The forward section of the full-scale mock-up service module fabricated by SWECO Fab, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiaries of PT&P Inc.

Figure 2: The design of the full-scale forward section mock-up International Space Station Service Module manufactured for NASA, Houston

The Neutral Buoyancy Lab, located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA Houston Johnson Space Center (JSC), is a large pool of water used in astronaut training to simulate the gravity conditions in space. The forward section manufactured by Sweco Fab, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Piping Technology & Products, is made up of ASTM A-304L material and weighs approximately 2500 lbs. The unit was on display at NASA’s Inspection Day 1999 and will soon be employed in International Space Station astronaut training.

Sweco Fab, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PT&P, is a manufacturer of specialty fabrication items, pressure vessels, pig-launchers and receivers, spectacle and line blinds, bellmouth reducers.  Visit Swecofab.com for more PT&P's ASME code fabricated products.  For further information on this project or our company in general.