NASA Chat: First Space-Bound Orion Arrives at Kennedy
On Monday, July 2, NASA officials answered questions about the Orion spacecraft in a live television broadcast from followers of NASA’s social media accounts.
NASA’s Orion program reached a major milestone on June 28, 2012, when the first space-bound Orion crew capsule arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Construction on the spacecraft was finished at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana this week, and final outfitting and heat shield installation will take place at KSC. The Orion spacecraft will carry astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before. It will provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space. This spacecraft will fly on Exploration Flight Test-1, an unmanned test that is scheduled two years from now.
43:09 to 43:19: Come on guys. You know exactly where the "Orion" name came from for a deep space exploration …
Do you have any idea how hard it would be to try to get it into an orbit while coming from deep space orbital velocities.
Exept the craft has nowhere near enough DeltaV to enter orbit. It would have to aerobrake, which requires a heat shield.
Not currently, you need a large magnetic field, and of course a way to generate it, to make a trip to Jupiter survivable. Its magnetosphere acts like a giant radiation-weapon.
The Mars Ascent Vehicle that was proposed for the Constellation Mars mission was to be a modified Orion. But that's not the purpose of Orion, it's a crew shuttle, not more, not less.
You mean like the antigravity technology that doesn't exist but is somehow stored in Area 51?
Can this spacecraft land, or does it have the capabilities to carry a lander that could land on say mars or the moon, possibly on an asteroid.
I can see the souvenir shop!
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Thanks for the ride!
I have been in a lot of pain and in the hospital. However I did watch launch of Orion. It is a lovely spacecraft and I will sure feel right at home here.
YOU,LL could create an active , rotation around the rocket capsule to prevent damaging by accellerating a kind of centrifuge force moon , synthesis