13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
... from an unexpected source - the unusual brightening of a star in the constellation Orion. In 1936, over the course of the year, a previously undistinguished faint star in Orion known as FU Ori, became a whopping 250 times brighter than it usually...
01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
...launch escape system), a Gemini boilerplate drop-test vehicle and the Orion PA-1 pad abort test capsule, built at Langley and launched ... (which if nothing else reminds us how long the Orion programme has been in gestation!). The museum also houses ...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... digital controllers are built by Honeywell Aerospace in Clearwater, Florida, a major subcontractor to Aerojet Rocketdyne. The SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, Gateway and Human Landing System are part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration. Work...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
..., with landings occurring “in his lifetime”. At present the architecture for NASA’s flyby approach would involve using Orion four-seater launch and re-entry capsules, attached to in-flight habitat modules either using inflatable designs or Automated...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... nuclear weapons were created, more detailed plans for interstellar travel emerged. These included Freeman Dyson’s Orion study, based on nuclear pulse propulsion, and the works of Leslie Robert Shepherd.2 Antimatter, predicted by Paul Dirac...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... display’. [15] Artist’s illustration depicting a ‘Plymouth Rock’ asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping...
