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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.
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NASA, ATK Conduct First Launch Abort System Igniter Test for Orion
NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, reached another milestone Friday with the successful test firing of a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, NASA's next generation of spaceships.
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NASA's Airbag Drop Tests in Full Swing
Second generation airbag drop testing is underway at the Landing and Impact Research Facility at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
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Orion's New Launch Abort Motor Test Stand Ready for Action
NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, has unveiled a new vertical test stand that will be used later this summer to support NASA's Constellation Program.
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Orion Arrives at Dryden
Crew module mockup arrives at Dryden for test preparations.
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NASA Readies Hardware for Test of Astronaut Escape System
The Constellation Program's first step toward the Moon -- a Pad Abort-1 flight test -- is less than a year away.
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Game On: NASA Advances Virtual Cockpit for Moon Landings
For the next generation of space explorers, landing on the moon or Mars might feel similar to playing an out-of-this-world video game.
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Orion's Prototype Heat Shield Undergoes Tests
Orion's prototype heat shield undergoes rigorous testing.
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Spaceship Mockup
NASA's Orion spacecraft now in development is America's first new manned spacecraft since development of the space shuttle 30 years ago.
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Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Work Assignments
Constellation Program work is being performed at multiple locations around the country.
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 "The simulated Orion crew module heads to its temporary home in a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center")