Orion!

[Luddly Neddite]

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is built to take humans farther than they’ve ever gone before. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.


On December 4, 2014, Orion will launch atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex Flight Test on the Orion Flight Test: a two-orbit, four-hour flight that will test many of the systems most critical to safety.


The Orion Flight Test will evaluate launch and high speed re-entry systems such as avionics, attitude control, parachutes and the heat shield. In the future, Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. More powerful than any rocket ever built, SLS will be capable of sending humans to deep space destinations such as an asteroid and eventually Mars. Exploration Mission-1 will be the first mission to integrate Orion and the Space Launch System.

More at the link.

Graphic from

Orion spaceship set for new tests in Colorado page 1

 

[Mad Scientist]

You took a 3.5 year old posting from ATS and stuck it here? Why couldn't you include an update? Do you even know about it? (I already know what it is)

 

[Luddly Neddite]

You took a 3.5 year old posting from ATS and stuck it here? Why couldn't you include an update? Do you even know about it? (I already know what it is)

The first link (to NASA) is current, includes info that is only 5 hours old and the launch is set for Dec 4. Of this year.

I wanted to include a graphic and, in the interest of accuracy, included that link as well.

So sue me.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

I don't always like ol' luuuuudly. But I approve the OP of this thread.

Thanks for posting it.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I don't always like ol' luuuuudly. But I approve the OP of this thread.

Thanks for posting it.

You're welcome.

Its fascinating stuff.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

It is that.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Oh I thought they were from the same link.

My apologies.

 

[Mr. H.]

I don't always like ol' luuuuudly. But I approve the OP of this thread.

Thanks for posting it.

You're welcome.

Its fascinating stuff.

I don't always agree with a LudNut post, but when I do... it's because it's not a Deany post.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Delayed until tomorrow.

 

[52ndStreet]

any mission to Mars wouldbe a suicide mission because once you land on Mars the gravity would be as such not to allow you to lift offtkae all this

 

[52ndStreet]

all this talk about Mars mission is all hogwash and a waste of good money.!

 

[Harry Dresden]

all this talk about Mars mission is all hogwash and a waste of good money.!

sure it is......
NASA s Journey to Mars NASA
NASA Planning Human Mission to Mars With Orion Test Flight - IGN
NASA s Orion Test Flight Gets Us Closer to Mars - Businessweek
nasa mission to mars - Google Search

 

[Old Rocks]

Same was said of the first lunar missions. And the wonderful technology that we are communicating with is a direct result of those missions. A very wise Eastern Oregon cowboy once said "Even when it costs too much, research is a bargain". The exploration of the solar system is the next grand area of research. The human race will gain immeasurebly from it, and from there, who knows where.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Not only that Oldrocks, but the resources of space are limitless. Only someone truly clueless would start with the premise that the earth is the only place with resources. There's more fresh water on Europa than on earth! Lastly, exploring space is something humanity needs to do just like walking out of Africa.

 

[ScienceRocks]

all this talk about Mars mission is all hogwash and a waste of good money.!

How is it a waste of money? Oh'yesss, you're one of those people that think "resources" pop out of the ground of the earth only. lol

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Looking at the Orion vehicle, isn't it just Apollo Mark 2? How is it a "vehicle" that can get itself anywhere? Doesn't it just ride a rocket into orbit then tumble around a little while then fall back to Earth? Is there an actual propulsion system on that tiny thing?

 

[52ndStreet]

First of all the telemetry to get to Mars is so large that it allows to much room for error. 2nd it would take
to long to get their, about a year. 3rd once you land on the Martian surface you would be to heavy to escape
the Martian gravity for lift off for the trip back to Earth. In essence you have all the ingredients for a suicide
mission, which is what any trip to Mars would be when you analize all the paramaters of such a mission.!

 

[mamooth]

The mission itself went well. It went up, orbited, came back down, and the Navy is now hauling it into the well deck of their ship.

There is a standard propulsion part that attaches to the Orion capsule. And depending on the mission, there could be a bigger propulsion part attached. The capsule itself is quite a bit larger and roomier than the Apollo capsules.

 

[52ndStreet]

The 6 billion it would cost to get to Mars could be spent somewhere else right here on Earth to help
people in need.
This Mars pipe dream is all fantasy and a big waste of money.!

 

[percysunshine]

.

So ...now the Rooskies do not have NASA by the balls anymore. Can't argue with that much.

.