01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...the Artemis program,” he added. NASA will rely on its own Orion crew capsule and heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket ... then carry crews to the lunar surface after rendezvousing with Orion. None are required to use SLS as the launch vehicle...
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
...whereby the rocket could lift off, carrying the uncrewed Orion astronaut capsule for Artemis 1, in late December. However,...that according to schedule it should have wrapped up in July. The Orion capsule had yet to be attached to the top of the rocket,...
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...
