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more about #orion A Pimp Named DaveR: Not to be nitpicky -- but this isn't actually how the manned Orion launch escape system would work. This is a simulation of the first full-scale test... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: It looks like a giant jacket button is falling on you. more » frigg: is there an ejection system from the ejection system? It looks like a lot of stuff has to go right in the midst of what would be a catastrophic failure. more » bl1nk2much: i totally misread that header...i though it said majestic erection system... Pretty neat stuff what NASA can do though.. more » Xeno: Chief: Alright people I need ideas for additions to our vehicle. Go! Tech 1: Racing Stripes! Chief: NO! Next. Tech 2: Umm... lasers. Pew Pew! Chie... more » Margatron: The Orion abort system seems a bit more logical when you need to get your astronauts the hell away from the burning exploding carcass of the rocket bo... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: JINX no like. Can not cause thermal curtain failure and send Max to space! JINX and Max, friends forever! But seriously, was anyone else a little we... more » blazedshaggy: omg that should soooo be a ride at Six Flags! more » loslosbaby: "Armstrong landed that old thing on a wing and a prayer..." Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle, and spoke the first words heard from the moon too! "Contact ... more » bosskev: Here's how you--as an astronaut--would experience the mission...More realistically, here's how I--as a lazy-assed civilian--would experience the missi... more » fastm3driver: Personally we should quadruple NASA's budget. They are the most high tech "company" on almost every level. They create high tech jobs and very high te... more » Aturayd: I bet $10,000 the next person on the moon will either be black or female or both. more » Pwnerjam3.0: this new mission is asinine more » Takamofo: Wait... Wasn't Space Bat was NASA's last shot at the moon? more » Nick: You hear the clunk of mating adapters Stop, you're making me blush. Great post, but you forgot about that part of little Timmy, the billionaire's son,... more » Heliophage: That's if we go back. Didn't President Obama propose that we cut this excursion? more » Kaili Zhang: Question - why is it taking us so long to get to the Moon again when it took only 6 years back in the 60's? The technology we have is so much more adv... more » Robert Davis: I appreciate everything that you guys do. but Wat is all this space crap. I am not in space. I have never been to space. I will never be going to spac... more » Jack Loftus: Great to see another Kit Eaton article on Gizmodo! Especially one about space. more » kylenalepa: If money were no object, I'd say that they should build a base on the Moon where they can build something to send a crew of, like, 100 people to Mars.... more » -
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Video of NASA's Orion Crew Module's Majestic Ejection System
We really love the mid-launch ejection system (0-600mph in 3.5 seconds!) in the Orion crew module, and found a full video of how it would, theoretically, work. Check it out to see some pretty, life-saving parachutes. [Technology Review via Dvice] -
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The Max Launch Abort System Launch Makes Me Want to Be an Astronaut Again
Looks like Flash Gordon came to Virginia this Wednesday. Here you have images and video of the spectacular Max Launch Abort System in action. Sadly, the spiffy spacecraft won't be in Orion. Maybe they can send me one to test. More » -
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From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There's plenty of laboring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here's how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission: More » -
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Orion Capsule Under Testing in Anechoic Chamber
Three parts of tequila, two parts of triple-sec, one part of lime juice, then shake with ice, and filter. Oh wait, it's just the Orion capsule getting tested for electromagnetic waves. Or something. More » -
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The Next Space Shuttles
500 days—or thereabouts: That's the amount of time between now and the final flight of the awesome Space Transportation System, better known to you and me as the Space Shuttle. Here's what comes next... More » -
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NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear for Fires... In Spaaace!
In space, no one can hear you scream "Fire." Not that it'd matter, as few people could recognize a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it. More » -
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See the New Orion Spacecraft Up Close and Personal
NASA is now showing Orion—the spacecraft that will take humans to the Moon and Mars—at the National Mall in Washington. It's not the real thing, but it looks great (needs more pretty decals). More » -
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Cool Flash Graphic: Every Craft In NASA's Constellation System, Deconstructed
Accompanying a long piece on the future of NASA's Orion/Constellation system, the NYTimes threw together a nice Flash graphic detailing the individual components of what may or may not (ahem Fianciapocalypse) replace the Space Shuttle. -
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NASA Uncrates Apollo Heat Shield After 35 Years, Describes the Experience as a "Nerd Christmas"
It is no secret that NASA is looking to the past to help us go back to the moon and, eventually, to Mars. Today NASA revealed that scientists working on the Orion crew module visited the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Garber Facility in Suitland, Md. over the summer to unpack Apollo heat shields for the first time in 35 years. More » -
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Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA's Next Space Shuttle
With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan's space agency, to guarantee fresh shipments of space-Doritos flowing up to the brave souls on the International Space Sation. While they had initially planned to fill this gap by relying on commercial space cargo flights by companies like SpaceX, Reuters is reporting that delays in the private-sector space companies have caused NASA to look elsewhere to avoid being crippled by the Shuttle's retirement. UPDATE: NASA issued a statement this afternoon saying the Reuters' report was full of baloney. They're still dedicated to finding commercial haulers—full release below. More » -
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New Astronaut Suits, Stellar Fashion
US firm Oceaneering International was recently awarded a $745 million contract to design and test new spacesuits for future trips to the moon. Fully functional and considered the height of Mooninite fashion, the modular suit can be worn two ways depending on the occasion. More » -
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50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones
To commemorate the golden jubilee of America's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency—formed these 50 years ago in response to a little traveler called Sputnik—New Scientist has come up with a short list of 10 DARPA inventions: five that changed the world, and five that fell flat: More »
