Sentences with phrase «orion space capsule»

The rocket would carry crews in the agency's Orion space capsule, which has made one uncrewed test flight.

They started a Tucson aerospace firm, a contractor on NASA's new Orion space capsule.

THE MOMENT: The launch abort motor for the Orion space capsule spews 100 - foot flames from its four exhaust nozzles in a successful test firing in Promontory, Utah.

Barely a year after Inspiration Mars was announced, Tito went before Congress hat in hand, saying the flight wouldn't be possible without the use of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule, both still in development.

Not exact matches

FRANKFURT, April 17 - More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep - space capsule Orion will be made by 3 D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars.

FRANKFURT, April 17 (Reuters)- More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep - space capsule Orion will be made by 3D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars.

NASA is prepping its first - ever Orion space exploration capsule for a test flight in December.

NASA is set to send the Orion deep - space capsule on its inaugural uncrewed flight this week.

President Obama made a rare shout - out to space in Tuesday's State of the Union Address, referencing NASA's recent Orion capsule launch and addressing astronaut Scott Kelly in the audience at the Capitol.

EFT - 1 flew the Orion capsule to more than 15 times further from Earth than the International Space Station, about 3,600 miles above the planet's surface.

President Obama has proposed that the Orion capsule, which would have carried crews to the International Space Station and to the moon, should stay on as the space station's lifeboat, replacing Russia's aging Soyuz capSpace Station and to the moon, should stay on as the space station's lifeboat, replacing Russia's aging Soyuz capspace station's lifeboat, replacing Russia's aging Soyuz capsule.

Topping the list of issues is the agency's ability to fly the space shuttle safely while developing its replacement, the Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule, slated to be ready to fly by 2015.

The European Space Agency has a packed year ahead to work on NASA's new Orion capsule, new contracts for Ariane rockets and a new reusable space Space Agency has a packed year ahead to work on NASA's new Orion capsule, new contracts for Ariane rockets and a new reusable space space plane

Its stated purpose is to test and develop new technologies for spaceflight, such as NASA's Space Launch System heavy - lift rocket, its Orion deep - space crew capsule and an advanced solar - electric propulsion engine suitable for long - haul cargo tSpace Launch System heavy - lift rocket, its Orion deep - space crew capsule and an advanced solar - electric propulsion engine suitable for long - haul cargo tspace crew capsule and an advanced solar - electric propulsion engine suitable for long - haul cargo trips.

Obama also softened his proposal to eliminate Constellation entirely, saying that he had directed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to begin work on an escape craft for the International Space Station that would be based on Constellation's Orion crew capsule.

To do this, the programme includes a design for the Orion crew capsule with up to six seats, the Altair lunar lander, and a new booster system called Ares, which uses components from both the Apollo - era Saturn rocket and the space shuttle.

In addition, the agency would spend almost double that, $ 2.453 billion, on its own capsule, Orion, and a rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

Late yesterday the agency announced that its proposed Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which is intended to take humans to asteroids and eventually to Mars, will be virtually identical in design to Orion, a space capsule that was being developed under the Bush Administration's Constellation program.

NASA also prepped Orion, the space capsule slated to carry astronauts to Mars, for its first test flight in December.

The workshop group's plan hinges partially upon the availability of NASA's heavy - lifting rocket, the Space Launch System, and the space agency's deep space crew capsule, the Orion spacecSpace Launch System, and the space agency's deep space crew capsule, the Orion spacecspace agency's deep space crew capsule, the Orion spacecspace crew capsule, the Orion spacecraft.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

As for NASA's plans, delivering astronauts to Mars by the 2030s continues to be its long - term goal, and Congress will fund the completion of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule for that mission.

According to USA Today, the proposed budget would earmark $ 3.7 billion for continued work on the Space Launch System and the Orion capsule that will be used on deep space flights as well as on the planned manned mission to Space Launch System and the Orion capsule that will be used on deep space flights as well as on the planned manned mission to space flights as well as on the planned manned mission to Mars.

The U.S. government space agency first outlined the plan in 2010, after nearly four decades of robotic exploration on the Red Planet, and has since taken many steps to make NASA's Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System a plausible reaspace agency first outlined the plan in 2010, after nearly four decades of robotic exploration on the Red Planet, and has since taken many steps to make NASA's Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System a plausible reaSpace Launch System a plausible reality.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationspace capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.

Artist's concept shows Jupiter spacecraft and Exoliner cargo carrier with NASA's Orion crew capsule in a Lockheed Martin dual use conceptual proposal for commercial missions to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) and deep space exploration missions to the Moon and Space Station (ISS) and deep space exploration missions to the Moon and space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars.

Burns hopes such a mission will launch in 2021, on the first manned flight of NASA's Orion capsule and Space Launch System rocket.