Air Products has completed the first fill of what it claims is the world’s largest hydrogen sphere at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center located on Merritt Island, Florida.
The NASA hydrogen sphere is the world’s largest liquid hydrogen tank, measuring 90 feet tall and 83 feet in diameter. To complete the fill, Air Products delivered over 50 trailer loads of liquid hydrogen – over 730,000 gallons in all – to NASA’s new sphere.
The space agency uses liquid hydrogen combined with liquid oxygen as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines.
The hydrogen will be used to fuel NASA’s Artemis missions, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon.
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