What 7 posts with no space articles? For shame Dave. To rectify this : The Delta 4 Heavy rocket was rolled out to Launch Complex 37 at Floridas Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 30, then lifted to a vertical position Oct. 1 to prepare for the Dec. 4 test flight of NASAs Orion crew capsule. The new Capsule will shuttle astronauts back and forth to the ISS. If the design looks familiar it should. Why fix it if its not broke said NASA and Lockeed Martin officials. This capsule is a beyond low earth orbit capable space craft with a max speed of 20,000 mph and later slated for Moon and Mars missions. It will compete with Space-X/ Boeing Dragon shuttle whos interior looks more like what we think is todays design with all flat screen monitors and cool blue LED back lighting. The reason for the Orion program is simple. The Russians charge us $70 million dollars per passenger on their ISS flights. We will make our money back on just two flights. Glad to see NASA back in the game. Oh, BTW unlike the rumors in the past that NASAa budget comprises of 25% of our budget may have been true in the late 60s but today accounts for less that 1%.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:18:51 +0000
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