The U.S. space agency and Alliant Techsystems Inc. say they are planning the first full-scale test of the Orion crew capsule launch abort system.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Alliant say the first full-scale test firing of the motor for the new launch abort system will be conducted Nov. 20 at the company’s launch systems facility in Promontory, Utah.The launch abort …
NASA and ATK will conduct the first full-scale test fire of the motor for a new launch abort system.
Absolute. Spacenerdgasm. 23 Omega Speedmaster Watches. In a cool space suitcase. The first is a replica of the original 1957 Speedmaster Broad Arrow, while the next 22 of them are the NASA missions…
Cutting NASA’s apron strings? PayPal multihecamillionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has announced that it will fly a genuinely private-sector space mission – including return to Earth – as soon as 2010.…
The U.S. space agency says it plans to highlight some of its most inspiring science and engineering achievements during an upcoming supercomputing exhibit.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said its research exhibit in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-21 during the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis will feature presentations about how …
NASA was the focus of this month’s West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation Roundtable Luncheon.Dr. Butch Caffall, director of the NASA Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, was the guest speaker for the event, which took place at the I-79 Technology Park Research Center in Fairmont Wednesday afternoon.
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bmcage writes “The ESA unveiled the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a real re-entry vehicle. Although it will not be reused, it has a better geometry than NASA’s Orion or the Russian Soyuz, giving better lift, and control. This is not done by the addition of useless wings, but by using two brakes. Finally a departure from the Apollo design that is actually better?” Read more of this …
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