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Orion
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Orion Cockpit Promo Video
Video: NASA’s Orion Cockpit, SpaceRef “Orion’s December flight test will be uncrewed, but the spacecraft is meant to carry people. Astronaut Lee Morin shows off the cockpit future Orion crews […]
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Haven't I Seen That Spacecraft Before?
Keith’s note: I was immediately struck by the similarity of this image (much larger uncropped version) that Lockheed Martin released today of Orion and a shot from the iconic “2001: […]
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Moving Closer to Orion's First Flight
Orion Spacecraft, Rocket Move Closer to First Flight, NASA “NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space are at their penultimate stops […]
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How Much Will SLS Actually Cost?
NASA Solicitation: Space Launch System RS-25 Core Engine “In developing the SLS, the Act directed the Administrator to utilize, to the extent practicable, existing contracts, investments, workforce, industrial base, and […]
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Finally: A Completed Orion/MPCV/CEV
The First Orion Crew Module Is Complete “NASA’s first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center […]
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Confusing Orion PR From NASA
NASA Outreach on Social Media, This is True “Worse, the word “Mars” isn’t anywhere in the story. Isn’t that the more interesting thing? We’re going to Mars? Cool! What are […]
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Congress and GAO Have Doubts About SLS Costs
Letter to NASA Administrator Bolden from House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Republicans, 27 August 2014 “Will NASA be able to fly the SLS for Exploration Mission-1 in calendar […]
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Panel Discussion – Building Blocks to Mars
Building Blocks to Mars – AIAA Space 2014, SpaceRef Business “At this years AIAA Space 2014 conference a panel of experts from NASA and industry discussed the building blocks of […]
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Exploration Systems Division Q2 Update
NASA Exploration Systems Division Quarterly Report #2 – 2014 [Video], NASA “NASA has released its quarterly from the Exploration Systems Division on the ongoing Orion, Space Launch System, Ground Systems […]