Keynote speaker at von Braun Symposium says NASA needs to ‘try new strategies’, Huntsville Times “[Wayne] Hale outlined a mixed bag of NASA successes in wake of the Apollo moon […]
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Astronauts Practice Launching in Orion
Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA’s New Orion Spacecraft, NASA “Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman try out a prototype display and control system inside an Orion spacecraft mockup at NASA’s […]
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Significant SLS Delays Ahead?
New NASA rocket faces delays, Orlando Sentinel “Lori Garver, leaving NASA after four years as deputy administrator, said NASA and Congress long have oversold the agency’s ability to build the […]
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SLS/Orion Progress Report Video
NASA Exploration Systems Division Quarterly Report #3 2013 (Video) According to NASA “NASA’s Orion, Space Launch System and Ground Systems Development and Operations programs continued to make progress towards sending […]
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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 […]
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NASA Releases New SLS and Orion Artists Concept Images
Artist Concept: NASA Space Launch System and Orion Spacecraft, SpaceRef “NASA has releases new artist concepts of the SLS and Orion spacecraft including being stacked in the Vehicle Assembly Building […]
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Orion Parachute Test Success
Tenth Parachute Test for NASA’s Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success [Watch], NASA “A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA’s new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of […]
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Orion Heat Shield Construction
Orion’s Heat Shield Takes Shape [Watch], NASA “Technicians at Textron Defense Systems near Boston are applying Avcoat ablator material to some 330,000 cells of a honeycomb on the heat shield […]
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NASA's Orion Program Begins Fairing Testing with Mixed Results
NASA’s Orion Program First Fairing Separation Test Provides Data To Validate Design, NASA “NASA is carrying out a series of tests to ensure the agency’s Orion spacecraft can successfully jettison […]
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Orion Passes Static Loads Tests
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure, NASA “After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA’s Orion crew module successfully […]