Dryden's Role in Space Exploration
NASA has completed work on a 92-acre launch complex that will serve as the test site for abort flight tests of its newest spacecraft, the Orion crew exploration vehicle, which is intended to take astronauts back to the moon.
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2008
NASA Extends Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract (4/08): NASA has extended the scope of a contract at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M., to include the construction of a launch pad for NASA's Project Orion abort flight tests. Denco Inc. of Las Cruces will complete the work as a subcontractor to Enterprise Advisory Services Inc.
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2007
Groundbreaking Signals Start of NASA's Constellation Flight Tests (11/07): 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. Workers broke ground today on a pad where the agency will test a launch abort system for the new Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M.
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NASA Awards Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract (11/07): 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 (4/07): NASA has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support abort flight test requirements for the Orion Project. The Air Force has contracted with Orbital Sciences Corp. of Chandler, Ariz., to provide launch services for the flight tests.
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