US space agency Nasa has chosen Lockheed Martin to build its new manned exploration craft Orion. The vehicle is being developed to take human space explorers back to the Moon and potentially then on to Mars. Lockheed Martin won the contract in competition against a joint bid from Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Its first manned [...]
We are gearing up for the announcement by NASA today which will name the Orion Contractor. The United States begins its next step in human space flight with the announcement by NASA on today (Thursday) of a contractor to design and build spaceships to fly to the moon. Lockheed Martin Corp and a partnership of [...]
NASA is marching forward on its plans to go to the moon, Mars and beyond — an agenda enunciated by President Bush as the vision for space exploration in January 2004. One goal of that plan is returning humans to the moon as early as 2015 and no later than 2020. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin [...]
NASA will start converting Kennedy Space Center into a moonport in the spring of 2008, and a new rocket that will launch U.S. astronauts on lunar missions will be test-flown at a modified shuttle pad a year later. What’s more, the agency on Thursday plans to announce the winner of a multibillion-dollar contract to build [...]
NASA Exploration Systems’ managers will host a press conference at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 31, to announce the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America’s next human spacecraft. The press conference will be in the NASA headquarters auditorium, 300 E Street S.W., Washington. It will air live on the Web and on [...]
NASA made officially announced the name of its moon vehicle yesterday — a week ahead of schedule. The reason for the early reveal was because an American astronaut on the international space station accidently released the name on an open radio channel. “We’ve been calling it the crew exploration vehicle for several years, but today [...]