Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama lent their expertise.
The submersible that went missing with five people on board during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday was built with NASA's help.in Alabama during the development of the deep-sea submersible, which is called Titan.
"NASA's expertise in the design and automated fiber placement lay up of composite hulls was extremely valuable on this project," OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush"The ability to construct Titan's pressure hull with aerospace-grade carbon fiber and manufacturing protocols results in a submersible which weighs a fraction of what other deep-diving crewed submersibles weigh," he added.
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