Humanity’s first effort to send humans into deep space and to other planets in our solar system begins in just two weeks. The launch window for NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, opens Dec. 4. While the world has been fixed on the Mars Rover and, more recently, a...
The barrel for the engine section of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, is taken off the Vertical Weld Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The barrel is flight hardware to be used on the first uncrewed test flight of the...
The Orion spacecraft moved from the Launch Abort Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 11 to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After arriving at the pad Nov. 12, Orion was lifted for stacking on the United Launch...
By Linda Herridge NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center NASA’s Orion spacecraft moved Nov. 11 from the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and arrived at Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
The first flight version of NASA’s Orion space vehicle is fully assembled and will be moved to its launch pad in Florida in coming weeks for an unmanned test launch Dec. 4. The capsule, designed and built by Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems...
Christopher Nolan’s epic movie “Interstellar” is set to open this week…but already NASA’s Orion spacecraft is well on its way to making this sort of space exploration beyond the Moon a reality. In the movie, a group of explorers break through current limitations on...
EFT-1 Orion completes assembly and conducts FRR October 30, 2014 by Chris Bergin The stars are aligning for the December 4 debut mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, following the completion of the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) – albeit with three “actions” to satisfy...
NASA’s Orion exploration capsule has completed final assembly and testing at NASA’s Launch Abort System Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US. The final assembly included installing Ogive panels that will protect the crew module from harsh vibrations during...
NASA and ATK (NYSE: ATK) successfully completed a static test of the launch abort motor igniter for the Orion crew capsule’s Launch Abort System (LAS). Conducted at ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah, this test is the next step toward qualifying the...
NASA is a step closer to launching astronauts from American soil again. The space agency announced Tuesday that Boeing and Space-x will ferry crew members to the International Space Station starting in 2017. Right now, the United States pays Russia $70 million per...
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