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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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.
With the successful landing Saturday of the space shuttle Discovery, NASA is gearing up for its next mission: Saving the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Discovery and its crew of seven were due back Saturday afternoon, ending a nearly two-week mission that left the international space station fully powered with a new set of solar wings. Favorable landing weather was expected.
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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.
Their mission almost complete, space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts checked out their ship’s flight systems Friday to ensure a safe return to NASA’s spaceport.
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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.
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.
