Northern Ohio’s Plum Brook Wins Contract to Test Orion
NASA Plum Brook Station has won a $63 million contract to test the Orion spacecraft, the spacecraft that will carry astronauts for NASA’s planned return to the moon.
Plans call for testing Orion at Plum Brook in 2011 or 2012. That’s a few years off, but Friday’s announcement provides good news about the future of NASA Plum Brook, Whitlow said.
Ninth District U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, one of the officials who announced the contract, said she’s pleased Plum Brook will play an important role in Orion. Read more
