Riding aboard NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft, the Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission returned home to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on March 25 after four months of development testing in Ohio. The mated Crew Service Module (CSM) combo spent weeks in the thermal vacuum chamber of the Space Environments Complex at Plum Brook Station, as the civilian space agency and Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin ran it through a series of tests.
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The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about…
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Lockheed Martin readying NASA Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft for Plum Brook trip
by Philip SlossThe NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar orbit mission is…
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NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, is finishing preparations for pre-flight testing of the…
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Testing of Orion’s Service Module will be conducted at NASA Glenn’s Plum Brook Station this…
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The arrival of the second Orion European Service Module (ESM) at the Kennedy Space Center…
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The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in…
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At various centers in the United States, Northrop Grumman is marching toward the OmegA rocket’s…
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As world leaders grapple and struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic which leads to the…
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Northrop Grumman’s OmegA finished another step toward its first flight next year when it was…
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Sierra Nevada names Dream Chaser cargo module, updates CRS2 progress
At the Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility, Sierra Nevada Corporation unveiled the name…
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Dream Chaser on a path to maiden flight as primary structure arrives at SNC
by Chris BerginSierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spacecraft is about to enter final assembly, integration and testing…
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A flurry of initiatives announced early in March to find a way to fly Exploration…
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NASA Launch Services Program outlines the alternative launcher review for EM-1
by Philip SlossWith a mid-2020 Administration deadline for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) fast approaching, NASA tasked its Launch…
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Administration proposes the end of EUS while Administrator considers full Exploration manifest rewrite
by Philip SlossAlongside last week’s Trump Administration budget proposal to cancel future Space Launch System (SLS) upgrades,…
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The two modules that will fly NASA’s first solo Orion flight into lunar orbit and…
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The 404-day clock to connect, checkout, and test the first integrated Orion spacecraft for its…
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The processing teams within NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program are focusing their plans for…
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SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon that will fly the uncrewed Demonstration Mission -1 (DM-1) as part…
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A recent assessment of the completion date for the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core…