MOFFETT FIELD, California — One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to the research stations that dot Antarctica. Read More at SPACE.com via Yahoo! News…
Budding astronauts, avert your eyes. NASA has posted photos of a failed test landing (read: crash) of a mock-up of the Orion crew exploration vehicle, part of the Constellation program to replace the shuttle in 2015. [More] Read More at Scientific American…
A mock-up of NASA’s Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell from thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly during a July 31 test. Read More at SPACE.com via Yahoo! News…
leetrout writes “Fox News has the story on a parachute test failing on a mock up of the new Orion spacecraft. ‘This is the most complicated parachute test NASA has run since the ’60s,’ said Carol Evans, test manager for the parachute system at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ‘We are taking a close [...]
Yep, They’re Gonna NEED To Fix This A preliminary test of the parachute system designed to softly return NASA’s upcoming Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth failed in spectacular fashion last month, resulting in an Orion-sized dent in the Arizona desert landscape. Read More at The Aero-News Network…
NASA’s moon rockets will sport shocks to smooth out bumpy ride. Read More at ABC News…
From NASA reports A test set-up parachute failed during the July 31 test of parachutes for the recovery system for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA released photos of the crash on Tuesday. Read More at The Bay Area Citizen…
The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow’s military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. Read More at AFP via Yahoo! News…
Lockheed Martin Corp. is expanding in the Houston area as it begins work on a NASA contract awarded in 2006 to build the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. (LMT) Read More at BizJournals…
NASA has terminated a contract with the company it hired to design and construct new spacesuits for use with the new Orion spacecraft after determining it made a mistake in evaluating costs. In terminating the contract NASA hopes to avoid litigation. In June, NASA announced it had selected Oceaneering International, Inc. to [...] Read More [...]