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Capabilities Brochure
Dryden's Role in Space Exploration
Dryden’s expertise in atmospheric flight research and test provides significant progress toward the fulfillment of US space exploration. NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, will use a Launch Abort System (LAS) designed to propel the Crew Module (CM) and its crew safely from a launch pad or in-flight emergency. › Read moreNews Archive
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Orion Gets a Lift
Recently, the Orion pad abort crew module was lifted by crane and placed on instrumented jacks at NASA Dryden to determine the vehicle's weight, balance and vertical center of gravity.
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Orion Crew Module Mockup
Orion Flight Test Parts Continue Arriving at NASA Dryden
The Forward Bay Cover for the first abort flight test Orion mockup crew module arrived along with other equipment at NASA's ... -
Orion Arrives at Dryden
Crew module mockup arrives at Dryden for test preparations.
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NASA Extends Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract
NASA has extended the scope of a contract at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range for Project Orion tests.
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Groundbreaking Signals Start of NASA's Constellation Flight Tests
With less than a year until flight tests of NASA's Constellation Program, work is under way on a launch pad that will host the first of those tests.
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NASA Awards Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract
NASA's White Sands Test Facility has selected Denco, Inc. of Las Cruces, N.M., to build launch site facilities for flight testing of the Orion Launch Abort System.
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NASA Buys Abort Test Boosters for Orion Flight Tests
Agency enters into agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support Orion.
Multimedia Gallery
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Orion Ascent Abort Flight Test →
NASA animation of the Orion Module Launch Abort System Ascent Abort Flight Test.
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Orion Pad Abort Flight Test →
NASA animation of the Orion Module Launch Abort System Pad Abort Flight Test.
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Orion Moment-of-Inertia Tests →
NASA technicians conduct moment-of-inertia tests on the Orion PA-1 crew module.
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Orion Weight-and-Balance Test →
Engineers conduct weight-and-balance tests on the Orion PA-1 crew module.