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Orion’s heat shield debate forces a new kind of moon-ride calculation
In deep-space travel, sometimes the most important “hardware” is a few inches of material that only matters for minutes. The ...
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Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard
"What they’re talking about doing is crazy." The post Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is ...
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NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly
As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.
The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They will fly in a ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (May 9, 2011) — With weight reduction an increasingly important goal for fuel economy improvement and emissions reduction, automotive parts maker Federal-Mogul Corp. has devised a ...
Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the USS Portland dock ship. Navy officials on the deck scrutinized the sky in search of a ...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA has selected The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., to develop alternate heat shield materials for the Orion crew ...
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Orion will carry astronauts past the Moon despite a heat-shield question it can’t dodge
In a few quiet moments of training, the Artemis II crew has already practiced the final, wet moments of their mission climbing out of a capsule bobbing in open water, assisted by recovery teams who ...
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