02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... service modules for NASA’s four crew Orion MPCV deep-space capsule. The module is to be constructed at an Airbus facility .... The Orion capsule itself is being built by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is based on the Apollo capsule approach, but ...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... deliver it to the Martian surface. In the 1980s, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin proposed that the cost of Mars missions ... way, the concept is closer to a cruise ship than an Apollo capsule. The advantage of a Space Train is that they can be configured...
