--- title: NASA: 60-Second Time-Lapse Construction of Rocket Fuel Tank description: NASA released a time-lapse video showing the construction of a liquid hydrogen tank in just 60 seconds canonical: https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T23:06:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:03:01.706Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch a NASA Rocket Fuel Tank Assembled in 60 Seconds in This Time-Lapse og:description: Take a minute to watch the assembling of the massive tank og:url: https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde8f35faeba7ddc4/6988a2c25f570fe3b4b223ac/nasa-hydrogen-tank.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: nasa-hydrogen-tank og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a NASA Rocket Fuel Tank Assembled in 60 Seconds in This Time-Lapse twitter:description: Take a minute to watch the assembling of the massive tank twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde8f35faeba7ddc4/6988a2c25f570fe3b4b223ac/nasa-hydrogen-tank.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a NASA Rocket Fuel Tank Assembled in 60 Seconds in This Time-Lapse by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 17, 2016 11:06 PM CUT  YouTube by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 17, 2016 11:06 PM CUT In a new time-lapse video, [NASA](http://time.com/4230967/nasa-astronaut-record/ "undefined") shows the construction of a massive 130-foot tall rocket fuel tank look in just 60 seconds. The video shows the liquid hydrogen tank from top and bottom angles as it is assembled at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. NASA said on its [Marshall Center YouTube page](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IcPrSIjxnc "undefined") that the tank will be transported to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, “for structural testing.” “Testing ensures the flight articles will be able to sustain the extreme forces experienced during launch,” the page said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/"},"headline":"Watch a NASA Rocket Fuel Tank Assembled in 60 Seconds in This Time-Lapse","datePublished":"2016-08-17T23:06:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:03:01.706Z","description":"Take a minute to watch the assembling of the massive tank","url":"https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde8f35faeba7ddc4/6988a2c25f570fe3b4b223ac/nasa-hydrogen-tank.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde8f35faeba7ddc4/6988a2c25f570fe3b4b223ac/nasa-hydrogen-tank.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"nasa-hydrogen-tank","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4456815/nasa-time-lapse-rocket-fuel-tank/","name":"Watch a NASA Rocket Fuel Tank Assembled in 60 Seconds in This Time-Lapse"}}]}] ```