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  Endeavour Crew to Demo Orion Rendezvous, Docking Sensors

  Posted by Mark Carreau 5:46 PM on May 29, 2011

  The Endeavour and International Space Station crews bid one another farewell early Sunday, setting the stage for an five hour undocking and re-rendezvous test of two relative navig... Read More >>

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  Sign Of The Times

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 9:49 AM on Feb 01, 2011

  Colorado's two Democratic senators probably have a pretty good idea that President Barack Obama won't be heeding their call to "keep NASA a priority so we do not cede our leadershi... Read More >>

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  Getting A Little Mo

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 2:25 PM on Jul 23, 2010

  It looks like the U.S. space program may be getting a little momentum back. Congress is moving toward a considered response to the Obama administration's proposed space-policy chan... Read More >>

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  Bent Metal

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 3:22 PM on Jul 08, 2010

  A lot of paper rockets have come and gone since the first V-2 missile poked through the atmosphere almost 70 years ago. It is an extremely rare moment when a vehicle able to reach ... Read More >>

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  Abort Test Photos

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 5:31 PM on May 06, 2010

  NASA tested the launch abort system for the Orion crew exploration vehicle for the first time today, with spectacular results.Regardless of the ultimate fate of Orion -- now at the... Read More >>

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  Orion's Display

  Posted by Guy Norris 3:30 AM on Apr 14, 2010

  Amid encouraging signs that President Barak Obama will announce a reprieve for the Orion crew exploration vehicle during his much anticipated space policy speech on Thursday, Honey... Read More >>

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  The Florida Surprise: Obama's Speech

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 10:15 PM on Apr 13, 2010

  Colorado Springs, Colo. - President Barack Obama will announce plans to continue work on the Orion crew exploration vehicle, perhaps as a lifeboat for the International Space ... Read More >>

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  VIDEO: Orion Abort Control Motor Test

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:06 PM on Dec 17, 2009

  Looking like a carefully choreographed fireworks display, this video actually shows the full-scale ground test of Alliant Techsystems' (ATK) attitude control motor for the lau... Read More >>

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  Orion Goes Flying

  Posted by Guy Norris 3:57 AM on Aug 19, 2009

  Tests of the Orion crew module launch abort system are edging closer with the delivery flight of the initial test module to Kirtland AFB before onward transport to White Sands Miss... Read More >>

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  ATK pad abort thruster test

  Posted by Guy Norris 1:42 AM on Apr 02, 2009

  Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has completed a ground test firing of a sub-scale attitude control motor thruster for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA’s Orion crew exploration... Read More >>

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