Pushing the boundaries...
"But, this is completely different," says Jim Bray, the Lockheed-Martin director of the Orion crew module program.
For more about NASA's newest manned project designed to take its crew farther than any human spacecraft has been: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/looks-aside-nasas-orion-is-lightyears-ahead-of-what-they-had-in-apollo/
Work underway on Orion, NASA's newest manned space program.
Yesterday marked the 47th anniversary of the Apollo space program's epic landing of the first men on the moon.
Now the focus is on America's next large manned space effort called Orion.
Look at NASA's high-profile Orion spacecraft, and you may get a funny feeling of familiarity, Nathan Mattise and Jennifer Hahn report on arstech.com.
While the modern crew vehicle recently made its big screen debut in the Oscar-nominated The Martian, any lingering deja vu more likely comes from a different place. With the Orion module, there's more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor—the one from the Apollo program, they wrote.
For more about NASA's newest manned project designed to take its crew farther than any human spacecraft has been: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/looks-aside-nasas-orion-is-lightyears-ahead-of-what-they-had-in-apollo/
Orion assembly.
Orion test launch.
The Apollo command module docking with the lunar excursion module.
Celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon landing, 1969.
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