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Orion Launch Abort Team Designs With Confidence
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center complete a major milestone on Orion's Launch Abort System.
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Orion Abort Flight Test Crew Module Departs Dryden For White Sands
The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 for the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the launch abort flight tests will be performed.
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A 21st Century-Style Return to the Moon
Forty years after the first moon landing, NASA has turned its attention back to lunar missions, this time planning to stay longer.
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Orion Spacecraft Launches to Space Station on Virtual Mission
Virtual Missions are a tool to verify NASA has the right processes in place to achieve its reduced flight preparation time.
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NASA's Shuttle Program Hands Over Launch Pad to Constellation
The May 31 transfer of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program is the next step in preparing the first flight test of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch system.
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Orion Abort Motor Arrives
One motor that tests safety on the Orion crew exploration vehicle has arrived in New Mexico.
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Robert Howard Jr., Ph.D.
Robert Howard Jr., manager of the Habitability Design Center at Johnson Space Center, is aiming to help crews be comfortable and productive during NASA's missions back to the moon.
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Richard A. Scheuring, D.O.
As a flight surgeon and the Constellation Lead for Medical Operations Integration, Dr. Rick Scheuring conducts medical research to enhance astronaut health and safety for the Constellation Program.
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PORT - Orion Mock-up and Collaboration Between NASA and Department of Defense
Orion is making a big splash. A mock-up of the spacecraft that will carry the next generation of astronauts to the moon and beyond is traveling down the East Coast and undergoing tests to help NASA understand its performance in water.
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Launch Complex Ready For Orion’s First Abort Flight Test
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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NASA's Launch Abort System Hardware Drives Cross Country
If you're heading through America's Sunbelt this week, you might look out your car window to see driving alongside you a nearly 45-foot-long rocket assembly.
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World's Largest Vacuum Chamber Gets Extreme Makeover
A hundred trucks carried in 1,600 tons of concrete. And that was just enough for the foundation of one of the new facilities NASA is building to test Orion.
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Operations and Checkout Building High Bay Ready for Orion Processing
NASA’s Constellation Program took another giant step forward as representatives helped mark the completion of renovations to the historic Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 26.
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To the Extreme: NASA Tests Heat Shield Materials
NASA is pulling together to make sure that the Orion crew vehicles will protect their crews from the extremes of spaceflight.
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First Test of Orion Launch Abort Motor
NASA and ATK have successfully tested a launch abort motor for the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
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Orion Boilerplate Crew Module Completes Mass Properties Testing at NASA Dryden
Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently completed mass properties tests on the Orion test crew module in preparation for the Launch Abort System flight tests scheduled to begin at White Sands, New Mexico, next spring.
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Stars of Constellation
NASA's Constellation Program isn't just about building the next generation spacecraft, but launching explorers that will help us learn more about our world. Discover the faces behind the hardware that will send humans to the moon and beyond.
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What Goes Up, Must Come Down
NASA won't send anything into space that needs to return -- without a parachute.
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NASA Tests Launch Abort Parachute System
NASA tested the parachutes for the recovery system on its Orion crew exploration vehicle above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on July 31.
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Orion Scale Model Tested in the Water
Scale models of the Orion crew exploration vehicle recently were tested at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and at a wave tank at Texas A&M University in College Station.