Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) said Wednesday that it has joined with Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to bid on a NASA contract to do additional work on the Ares 1. The contract is not expected to be put out for bid until next year, but ATK said it is setting up an office [...]
The Kennedy Space Ceneter has appointed Bill Parsons as director. The center is getting ready for a new fleet of Ares rockets and Orion spaceships for the return to the moon. “When you pull all of that together, it’s going to require us to stay focused,” he said. Parsons is not daunted. These are some [...]
NASA internal planning, official’s comments and contractor expectations suggest the much touted goal of manned flights of new crew vehicle Orion before 2014 are unrealistic NASA will fail to meet its goal of flying manned Orion missions before 2014, as the first delay emerges for the new spaceship’s development timetable just a week after its [...]
Officials at Lockheed Martin say the Orion crew vehicle, NASA’s Moon-bound successor to the space shuttle, will combine retro-1960s and cutting-edge aerospace technologies. The Apollo program, which sent a dozen men to the Moon, ended in 1972. It’s so long ago that fewer than half of all Americans are old enough to have watched one [...]
From Radio Iowa: NASA’s unveiled plans for its new space vehicle, called Orion, and an Iowa-born astronaut says he’s itching to be first in line to fly it. Burlington native Jim Kelly has logged more than 38-hundred flight hours in 35 types of aircraft, including piloting the space shuttle Discovery — twice. Kelly’s last mission [...]
The Russian view of the Orion Project from Pravda. NASA awarded a $7.5 billion dollar contract to build a manned spaceship to Lockheed Martin Corporation. The Orion crew exploration vehicle is supposed to replace the space shuttle fleet. The new spaceship is expected to start taking astronauts to the International Space Station in 2014. It [...]
This past week the Bush administration put a down payment on its promise to return astronauts to the moon and eventually land a manned vehicle on Mars. It’s a tall order, but a risk that is also worth taking. Coloradans in particular should cheer the announcement because Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract for the [...]
Shares of Lockheed Martin Corp Friday climbed on news of a consortium led by the defense contracting giant having won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract to design, develop and build the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the human spacecraft aimed at replacing the space shuttle. The contract won by [...]
NASA recently completed a series of tests that will aid in the design and development of a parachute recovery system for the rocket and capsule that will return astronauts to the moon and later support missions to Mars. The system will be used for the first stage booster of the Ares I crew launch vehicle [...]
Captain Eugene Cernan, veteran of three Apollo space flights, last man to walk on the moon “The announcement demonstrates concrete progress is being made with the Vision for Space Exploration. It won’t be long before construction begins, which means job security for thousands across the country … money not spent in space but on Earth [...]