A panel of Air Force safety experts has recently shown in a memo that NASA's newly developed rocket escape system, destined for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, might not work in the event of a failed landing, and that, subsequently, the crew and craft could easily die in the process. The space agency has rep... |
9 June 2009
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Following a recent invitation-only conference held at its own headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and attended by nearly 50 experts from different fields and institutions, the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company hopes to find enough important customers interested in purchasing their DragonLab reusable ... |
10 November 2008
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According to a report released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), squeezing a new space mission among the ones to be conducted before the scheduled retirement of the shuttles could prevent this retirement process from happening in due time – by 2010, as hoped. The chance for this to still take... |
5 November 2008
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The latest of NASA's crafts, the Orion space capsule unveiled at the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center from the Edwards Air Force Base, is currently undergoing first tests. If all goes well, this will serve as a prototype for the actual spacecraft, perfectly identical but including all the improv... |
1 November 2008
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Last Saturday, the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying the crew of Expedition 16 back to Earth experienced a 'ballistic' re-entry into Earth atmosphere, thus subjecting the crew to forces up to 10 G and putting their lives in serious jeopardy. It was a bumpy ride, one might say, and the second in a row with a ... |
23 April 2008
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We all know how valuable heat shields are while making re-entries into Earth's atmosphere, the Columbia space shuttle disaster stands as testimony for the importance of such hardware, as a hole only about 30 centimeters in diameter brought down a 3.6 ton behemoth of a spacecraft, killing seven in the process. In... |
3 March 2008
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