An Ohio State University Medical Center project contracted by NASA used cadavers to create technology for the Orion shuttle, space agency officials say.Dustin Gohmert, who designs seats for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said three human bodies were used to develop special suits and landing systems for the NASA spacecraft, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday.The testing …
Personnel working under contract for NASA used cadavers in tests to develop landing systems, spacesuits and seats in the new Orion moonship, space agency officials said Friday.
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Saying “I gave at the office” has new meaning for some NASA contractors at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The company building NASA’s new space toilet sent out a memo this week asking employees to donate urine, which will be used to test the toilet of the new Orion space capsule.
Well, perhaps this shouldn’t be too surprising, but it looks like NASA is going to miss an internal goal of having a new moon capsule ready by 2013 for launch. NASA had hoped to hit the earlier 2013 goal, therefore allowing it to test launch astronauts in the new moon capsule called Orion before the [...]
Tech Concerns Strain Earlier Target; Politics Threaten Later Date Plan on 2015. That’s the word from NASA this week, as the agency admits it “very likely” will not be able to meet its ambitious goal of started manned spaceflights with its Orion spacecraft in five years. But even that date is in flux.
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Giving it your all has a new meaning for some NASA contractors. The company building NASA’s new space toilet are asking employees to donate urine to test the new toilet on the Orion Space Capsule.
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ausoleil noted that NASA’s replacement for the shuttle, the Orion, is slipping behind schedule “‘We’re probably going to have to move our target date,’ NASA exploration chief Doug Cooke told The Associated Press on Wednesday after Nasawatch.com posted the 117-page internal status report (PDF) on the moon program. The cost problems include an $80 million overrun on a motor system. The Orion …
As NASA’s next-generation Orion spacecraft takes shape, engineers are still stuck on what’s always the toughest part of space engineering: the toilet. The Orion’s toilet might have to deal with six months worth of urine, which contains solids that are difficult to remove.
The US plan to send humans back to the Moon is experiencing growing pains.Publicly, NASA has said it plans to launch Orion, an Apollo-like capsule that will replace the space shuttle and will also ferry astronauts to the Moon, by…
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