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Fiorentino Drag Test with United Space Alliance Successful Newport Beach, California (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Fiorentino Para-Anchor announces a successful on-water test of its parachute sea anchor which is scheduled to be deployed when NASA’s new Orion spacecraft returns from its first beyond low Earth orbit flight test. Representatives of Houston-based United Space Alliance, subcontractor to Lockheed Martin on the Orion project, watched the test in the harbor at Long Beach, CA. Zack...
NASA is offering media representatives at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida an opportunity on Monday, April 15, to see Orion, the spacecraft that could take astronauts on a sample collection mission to an asteroid as early as 2021. The event, marking three years since President Obama set a goal of sending humans to an asteroid, will begin at noon EDT with a photo and interview availability with Robert Cabana, Kennedy's center director. Media should arrive at Kennedy's Press Site by...
NASA [ Watch the Video Flight Hardware for Space Launch System, Orion ] Welding engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have had an extremely busy winter assembling adapters that will connect the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for the initial test flight of Orion in 2014. The adapter later will attach Orion to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), a new heavy-lift rocket managed and in development at the Marshall Center that will enable missions farther...
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) successfully delivered a launch abort motor to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) of NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, scheduled to fly next year. The test flight abort motor is configured with inert propellant, since the EFT-1 mission will have no crew on board, but otherwise replicates the launch abort system that will ensure astronaut safety on future crewed Orion exploration...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans to deep space. The uncrewed EFT-1 mission, launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2014, will test the re-entry performance of the agency's Orion capsule, the most advanced spacecraft ever designed, which will carry astronauts farther...
[ Watch the Video: Orion Spacecraft: Exploring Mars And Beyond ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA recently completed a final series of water impact tests for the Orion spacecraft crew module using an 18,000-pound test article that mimics the size and weight of the Orion craft. The testing occurred in the Hydro Impact Basin at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. Langley's Hydro Impact Basin is located the Landing and Impact Research Facility (LandIR)...
HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 18,000-pound test article that mimics the size and weight of NASA's Orion spacecraft crew module recently completed a final series of water impact tests in the Hydro Impact Basin at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The campaign of swing and vertical drops simulated various water landing scenarios to account for different velocities, parachute...
HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Virginia Air & Space Center (VASC) announced today that a full-scale test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft will become part of the center's permanent collection. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The 18,000-pound Orion test vehicle, built at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was used in the successful Pad Abort-1 test of Orion's launch abort system in May 2010. The...
HOUSTON, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Tuesday successfully completed another parachute test of its Orion spacecraft high above the skies of the U.S. Yuma Army Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The test examined the maximum pressure Orion's parachutes might face when returning from exploration missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Orion will be the most advanced spacecraft ever designed and carry astronauts farther into space...
NASA Tuesday successfully completed another parachute test of its Orion spacecraft high above the skies of the U.S. Yuma Army Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The test examined the maximum pressure Orion's parachutes might face when returning from exploration missions. Orion will be the most advanced spacecraft ever designed and carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. It will provide emergency abort capability, sustain astronauts during space travel and provide safe...
