It Looked As If A Spaceship Had Landed On The National Mall On Monday As NASA Showed Off A Mockup Of Its New Orion Crew Module. The Orion Is Part Of A NASA Project To Return Astronauts To The Moon And Maybe Even Mars.
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Archive for March 31, 2009
Orion space capsule previewed on National Mall
It looked as if a spaceship had landed on the National Mall on Monday as NASA showed off a mockup of its new Orion crew module.
Constellation: Your First Look
A full-size mockup of Orion is being tested in the water off the coast of Maryland. It weighs 18,000 pounds and will help the teams get a good idea of what happens both inside and outside the spacecraft after it lands in the ocean.
Future heat-shield tiles take real-life test run
CAPE CANAVERAL — Shuttle Discovery will make a fiery plunge through the atmosphere this weekend, serving as a hypersonic test for new heat shield tiles that might be used to protect astronauts on NASA’s next-generation spacecraft.
NASA tests Orion recovery procedures
WEST BETHESDA, Md., March 25 (UPI) — A full-scale mockup of the U.S. space agency’s Orion crew module is being tested in water under simulated and real landing weather conditions.
Shuttle astronauts leave station after upgrades
Source: Reuters *Discovery set to leave International Space Station *Shuttle landing scheduled for Saturday in Florida *New space station crew blasts off Thursday By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 25 …
NASA: Discovery won’t fly before Sunday
The little bat that grabbed world attention on Sunday as it clung to to the side of space shuttle Discovery?s fuel tank during the countdown to launch, stayed on the spacecraft during liftoff.
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New Star Trek Online screenshots are on land and in space
Filed under: MMO , Screenshots Cryptic Studios ‘ other announced MMO game is Star Trek Online and while that game is not as further along as Champions Online Cryptic has certainly made far more progress than the game’s previous developer Perpetual Entertainment which went belly up early in 2008. New screenshots from the game have now been released and we’ve put them into …
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Star Trek Online: Ask Cryptic
This week’s ‘Ask Cryptic’ focuses on Star Trek Online and character customization and creation. Custom races? Yep. Androids? You bet! Find out all that’s fit to know by clicking ‘read more’.