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| NASA Orion Spacecraft to Return Explorers to the Moon & Mars |
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NASA update highlighting US Army Soldier and International Space Station flight engineer/science officer, COL Jeff Williams' public announcement of Orion, the newest NASA spacecraft that will be deployed for future missions to the Moon and Mars.
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| Interior of the Orion spacecraft |
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Lockheed recently published a mockup of the interior of the new Orion spacecraft. Orion will be used to take (4-6) astronauts back to the ISS, the moon, and (maybe) Mars.
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| NASA Tests Orion Spacecraft Mock-up at Kennedy Space Center |
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A full-scale mockup of NASA's Orion crew module is being tested in the water off the coast of Kennedy Space Center in Florida the week of April 6. The spacecraft mock-up traveled from the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division in Bethesda, Md., to Kennedy. The goal of the operation, dubbed the Post-landing Orion Recovery Test, or PORT, is to determine what kind of motion astronauts can expect after landing, as well as outside conditions for recovery teams.
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| Orion Spacecraft Unveiled! gnooze April 1, 2009 |
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President Obama talks tough to Detroit, Israel's army finds no factual support to claims of wrongdoing in Gaza, and NASA shows the world an Orion mock-up.Marta Costello hosts the gnooze (the g is silent) - today's top stories in about 3 minutes. Bloopers, t shirts and more at gnooze.com ! Sign up for twitter updates at twitter.com for a glimpse inside the mind of Marta! Music by Pistol Youth: http:pistolyouth.com and Special Thanks to Lettuce for the t-shirt/logo design - www.lettuceoffice.com Distributed by Tubemogul.
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| Orion spacecraft docking with the ISS |
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Orion spacecraft docking with the ISS in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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| "Hot Rod" - Nuclear Orion spacecraft prototype |
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In 1959 this mock-up version of the Orion was launched helping prove the validity of the design. 1 Meter in diameter, weighing 105kg, it was not powered by nuclear blasts but by 1 kilogram balls of C4 explosive. Watch closely and you can see them come out the back. It reached a height of 105meters. Read more here: www.google.com
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| NASA ORION SPACECRAFT LOGO |
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Animation of NASA's Orion Spacecraft logo. Created by Star Trek consultant for NASA. learn more at www.NASA.gov
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| Orion spacecraft: Back to the moon 2018 |
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Orion spacecraft: Back to the moon 2018
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| ORION | POST-LANDING RECOVERY TEST SPACECRAFT MOCK-UP |
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POST-LANDING RECOVERY TEST ORION SPACECRAFT MOCK-UP
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| NASA's canceled spacecraft and rockets, Orion and Ares 1-X |
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NASA has been busy planning for a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), to be able to rendezvous with the ISS and then to take a crew back to the moon in conjunction with the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM). A Crew Launch Vehicle, named Ares I, derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) will deliver the CEV to low Earth Orbit (LEO) while a larger rocket, Ares 5, will deliver ISS cargo of the LSAM to LEO. Once in LEO, the CEV and LSAM will dock and a J-2X Earth Departure Stage (EDS) will deliver the CEV/LSAM to Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) at 100 km. The EDS is discarded and CEV/LSAM temporarily decouple. The LSAM then performs the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) to deliver the LSAM to the lunar surface will all 4 astronauts onboard. After some amount of time on the surface, an ascent stage from the LSAM boosts the crew back to LLO and the ascent stage docks with the unattended CEV. The ascent stage is discarded and the service module section of the CEV boosts the crew module (with crew) towards Earth reentry, and the service module is then discarded. The crew module reenters the upper atmosphere and an ablative heat shield slows the craft to a point where it is captured by the Earth. Parachutes then slow the crew module for a land (or sea in emergencies) landing. Whew, safe at last from solar storms! Ares V will be able to launch 130 metric tons LEO inclined at 28.5 degrees or it can deliver 55 metric tons to trans-lunar orbit. By comparison, the <b>...</b>
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