NASA pushes ahead with work on new Orion space capsule and Ares rockets despite ambiguous status
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Image credit: NASA
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* FoxNews.com brings us the following good read today and it starts off like this... NASA is pushing ahead with work on its new Orion space capsule and Ares rockets despite their ambiguous status as lawmakers discuss the agency's 2011 budget request... Orion and Ares are part of Constellation, a NASA program designed to take astronauts back to the moon. Under his 2011 budget proposal, President Barack Obama called for canceling Constellation and urged NASA to work toward sending humans to an asteroid and then on to Mars... The outlook for Constellation's fledgling rocket and capsule spacecraft is not clear. Obama did recommend continuing development of Orion -- but only as an escape ship that could carry astronauts home from the International Space Station in an emergency... A NASA authorization bill recently passed by the Senate would direct the space agency to continue developing Orion and to fast-track plans for heavy-lift rockets and vehicles required for space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. A different bill under consideration in the House also seeks to revive some Constellation plans, including Orion and the Ares rockets...
Read the rest at link below...
Work Continues on New NASA Spaceships, Despite Uncertainties
Watch Slideshows below...
> The Orion Spacecraft Slideshow
> Ares I-X: Launch Vehicle Slideshow
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AubreyJ.........
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Image credit: NASA.
* FoxNews.com brings us the following good read today and it starts off like this... NASA is pushing ahead with work on its new Orion space capsule and Ares rockets despite their ambiguous status as lawmakers discuss the agency's 2011 budget request... Orion and Ares are part of Constellation, a NASA program designed to take astronauts back to the moon. Under his 2011 budget proposal, President Barack Obama called for canceling Constellation and urged NASA to work toward sending humans to an asteroid and then on to Mars... The outlook for Constellation's fledgling rocket and capsule spacecraft is not clear. Obama did recommend continuing development of Orion -- but only as an escape ship that could carry astronauts home from the International Space Station in an emergency... A NASA authorization bill recently passed by the Senate would direct the space agency to continue developing Orion and to fast-track plans for heavy-lift rockets and vehicles required for space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. A different bill under consideration in the House also seeks to revive some Constellation plans, including Orion and the Ares rockets...
Read the rest at link below...
Work Continues on New NASA Spaceships, Despite Uncertainties
Watch Slideshows below...
> The Orion Spacecraft Slideshow
> Ares I-X: Launch Vehicle Slideshow
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AubreyJ.........
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