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More Wasteful EPO Spending at NASA

NASA GRC Educational and Outreach Support for NASA’s Orion Program “NASA/GRC intends to contract to Alphaport, Inc. This is a follow-on effort to activities originally performed by Alphaport under contract NNC13QB53P in which Alphaport developed a visually library of Orion illustrations, graphics facts sheets, and other media products. Currently, Alphaport is the only contractor who has develop the initial media material and has the needed understanding of the media activities […]

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  • January 27, 2014
NASA is Building "Crew Exploration Vehicle" Again

NASA Solicitation: Crew Exploration Vehicle Cockpit Prototyping Phase Four “NASA/JSC has a requirement for Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Cockpit Prototyping Phase 4 research and development (R&D). The objective of the Phase 4 work is to provide human machine interface R&D for defining CEV cockpit layout requirements, displays, and controls rapid prototyping using iterative interaction.” Keith’s update: “CEV” (Crew Exploration Vehicle) is not a term that has been used for nearly […]

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  • November 24, 2013
OIG Cites Multiple Orion/MPCV Delays

Final Report – IG-13-022 – Status of NASA’s Development of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle “For example, the MPCV Program is beginning to experience testing delays that could result in schedule interruptions and cost increases down the road. Specifically, test dates have slipped 4 years on the Ascent Abort-2 test and 9 months on the Exploration Flight Test-1. NASA has also delayed development of many of the life support systems required […]

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  • August 15, 2013
FAA Closer to Allowing Orion To Return to Earth

FAA Reentry License to Lockheed Martin Corp. for Reentry of Orion MPCV From Earth Orbit to a Location in the Pacific “In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA; 42 United States Code 4321 et seq.), Council on Environmental Quality NEPA implementing regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500 to 1508), and FAA Order 1050.1E, Change 1, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, the FAA […]

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  • May 21, 2013
Modifying The Modified Mobile Launcher

NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher “NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send humans to an asteroid, Mars and other new destinations in the solar system. The work under this firm fixed-price $20.7 million contract will begin in June and be completed in 18 months.” […]

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  • May 8, 2013
Senate Action on NASA Funding for 2013

Senate funding measure gives NASA $2.1B for SLS for rest of 2013 (updated), Huntsvile Times “A bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee budget for the rest of fiscal year 2013 continues strong funding for NASA’s Space Launch System and calls on the agency to speed up its construction. The measure released by committee leadership Monday night gives the overall SLS program $2.1 billion for the rest of the fiscal year, including $260 […]

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  • March 12, 2013
Orion Gets a European Service Module

ESA Workhorse to Power NASA’s Orion Spacecraft “ESA agreed with NASA today to contribute a driving force to the Orion spacecraft planned for launch in 2017. Ultimately, Orion will carry astronauts further into space than ever before using a module based on Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle technology. Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) have been resupplying the International Space Station since 2008. The fourth in the series, ATVAlbert Einstein, is being readied […]

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  • January 16, 2013
ESA Will Build Orion's Service Module

NASA, ESA Hold TV Briefing on New Orion Agreement “NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will hold a news briefing at 10:30 a.m. CST on Wednesday, Jan. 16, to discuss the details of a recent agreement for ESA to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft’s Exploration Mission-1 in 2017. NASA Television will carry the briefing live from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.”

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  • January 4, 2013
Hearing on SLS/Orion

Hearing: Examining NASA’s Development of the Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule “The purpose of the hearing held by the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics is to examine on-going development of the Space Launch System (SLS), the Orion capsule and related systems, as well as discuss how these technologies can be used for future scientific missions.” – Hearing Charter – Dan Dumbacher prepared statement – Cleon Lacefield prepared statement […]

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  • September 12, 2012
Orion Delays and ISS Access

Orion High-altitude Abort Test Faces Budget-driven Delay, SpaceNews “A high-altitude test of the Orion deep-space capsule’s launch abort system could be delayed two years [FY 2018] to accommodate the tighter program budgets anticipated by NASA and Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin.” Sen. Hutchison Stresses Importance of Continued Progress on both Commercial and Government Space Launch Vehicles “I just hope that there will no longer be budget proposals from the President, […]

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  • June 24, 2012