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]
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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 look at what caused the set-up chutes to malfunction. A failure of set-up parachutes is …
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.
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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.
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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)
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 [...]
The battle for juicy NASA contracts is heating up as the space shuttle nears retirement in 2010 and work continues on the Constellation program to replace it. [More]
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Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine.
The next generation of lunar astronauts will wear spacesuits designed in part from cadaver studies at Ohio State University Medical Center.
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