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... agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support abort-flight-test requirements for the Orion spacecraft Orion Project. Under a contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation of Chandler, Arizona, the U.S ... conditions along the Ares launch-vehicle trajectory. ''NASA, “NASA Buys Abort Test Boosters for Orion spacecraft Orion Flight Tests,” news release 07-86, 16 April 2007, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews ...

... Warfare Center’s Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland, NASA had begun the Post-Landing Orion spacecraft Orion Recovery Test (PORT), its goal to determine the types of motions the astronaut crew ... recovery operations, including equipment, ship, and crew necessities. ''NASA, “NASA’s Constellation Program Tests Orion spacecraft Orion Recovery Procedures,” news release 09-068, 25 March 2009, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews ...

... and can request mission use through partnerships. ''RELEASE: M13-061 - NASA INVITES MEDIA TO VIEW ORION, SPEAK WITH KENNEDY SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR'' --CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is offering media representatives at ... Building. . Other speakers include Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager, and Keith Hefner, Space Launch System Program planning and control manager. Cabana, Geyer ...

... ON TWO OF THREE PARACHUTES IN TEST'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA engineers have demonstrated the agency's Orion spacecraft can land safely if one of its three main parachutes fails to inflate during ... spacecraft, particularly those carrying humans, are designed to keep working when something goes wrong. So, Orion will be equipped with three main parachutes and two drogues, providing each system one backup ...

... how it fares when the parachute system does not perform as expected. During the test, Orion engineers will carry out a scenario in which one of the spacecraft’s two drogue ... mph to about 20 mph when the spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The Orion spacecraft is built to take humans farther than they’ve ever gone before, including to ... capabilities, sustains the crew during space travel, and provides safe re-entry from deep space. Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System . '''Algae Bloom ...

... Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018. These small satellite secondary payloads will carry science and technology investigations to ... boosters and four RS-25 engines. The CubeSats will be deployed following Orion separation from the upper stage and once Orion is a safe distance away. Each payload will be ejected with ...

... to U.S. soil, advancing space technology development; and successfully completing the first flight of Orion, the next deep space spacecraft in which our astronauts will travel,” said NASA Administrator Charles ... .; foster groundbreaking technology development and aeronautics; and move forward with the Space Launch System and Orion on our journey to Mars. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) performed incremental tests of its reaction ...

... Wyche, director of Johnson’s Exploration Integration and Science directorate Annette Hasbrook, assistant manager for Orion Program integration Jenny Devolites, Ascent Abort-2 crew module deputy manager Nicole Mann, NASA astronaut ... space exploration, including: the Modified Advanced Crew Escape System spacesuits in development for use in Orion; the spacecraft’s displays and control system and parachutes; virtual reality technologies; and a lab ...

... , the agency’s website, and the Orion Facebook page. Viewers can ask questions of NASA experts, including Orion Program Manager, Mark Kirasich, astronaut Randy Bresnik and Orion parachute engineers, on social media during the event using AskNASA. An Orion test capsule will be dropped from ...

... before in visible light, including some that were only 100th the brightness of previously viewed Orion stars. Among the stars studied were young brown dwarfs and a small population of possible ... general scenario of star formation in that region.” ''NASA, “NASA’s Hubble Reveals Thousands of Orion Nebula Stars,” news release 06-007, 11 January 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews ... /jan/HQ_06007_HST_AAS.html (accessed 14 September 2009); Ker Than, “The Splendor of Orion : A Star Factory Unveiled,” Space.com, 11 January 2006, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060111 ...

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