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18 января 13 в 5:24
Heading to DC to be in the Inaugural Parade on Monday. pic.twitter.com/Yn0UhTwP

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Это тот самый момент, когда Россия пролетает мимо Луны?

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Lanista пишет:
Это тот самый момент, когда Россия пролетает мимо Луны?

мимо астероида, точно
НАСА удалось сформировать пилотируемый проект, к которому Россия никаким боком примазаться не сможет.
В отличие от Лунного.

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Вот и отлично.

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Формируй-не формируй, всё равно получишь....

Денег-то нет.

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До старта к астероиду еще лет 15. Полжизни осла Ходжи Насреддина.))))

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Титановый каркас FHS явно усилен c одной стороны)  

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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/02/orion-processing-ahead-of-eft-1-mission/

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"Орион" на испытаниях успешно приземлился без одного из трех парашютов

МОСКВА, 13 фев — РИА Новости. Специалисты НАСА в ходе испытаний в штате Аризона доказали, что посадочная капсула будущего межпланетного корабля "Орион", первый полет которого запланирован на 2014 год, может совершить безопасную посадку в случае отказа одного из трех парашютов, сообщает пресс-служба аэрокосмического агентства.
"Мы не думаем, что парашют откажет, но теперь мы доказали, что если так случится, то (посадочная) система сможет обеспечить безопасную для нашего экипажа посадку", — отметил Крис Джонсон (Chris Johnson), руководитель разработки парашютной системы "Ориона" со стороны НАСА.
Испытания проводились на полигоне в Юме. Тестовая капсула "Ориона" весом 9,5 тонны была сброшена с самолета на высоте 7,6 километра. Инженеры вывели из строя один из трех парашютов, в результате чего раскрылись и наполнились воздухом только два.
Поскольку "Орион" будет совершать полеты за пределы околоземной орбиты, его посадочная капсула будет входить в земную атмосферу с высокой скоростью — более 9 километров в секунду. Согласно расчетам, корабль могут безопасно "посадить" два главных парашюта и один стабилизирующий. Однако для обеспечения дополнительной надежности, посадочная система состоит из трех главных парашютов и двух стабилизирующих. В декабре специалисты проверили систему на отказ одного из стабилизирующих парашютов, а следующие испытания запланированы на май.
"Орион", напоминающий по своей конструкции "Аполлоны", разрабатывается для полетов за пределы околоземной орбиты, в частности, для экспедиции к астероиду, которая планируется на 2025 год. Первые летные испытания запланированы на 2014 год — "Орион" полетит в космос на носителе "Дельта IV", а в 2017 году "Орион" будет запущен с помощью будущей тяжелой ракеты SLS (Space Launch System).

http://ria.ru/science/20130213/922641745.html

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Поскольку "Орион" будет совершать полеты за пределы околоземной орбиты, его посадочная капсула будет входить в земную атмосферу с высокой скоростью — более 9 километров в секунду
 Наши ошибаются:  ~9000 м/с это скорость входа в полете 2014года, От Луны и Марса будет больше 11 км/с.

NASA's Orion Lands Safely On Two of Three Parachutes in Test
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130212164934.htm

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NASA's Orion Lands Safely On Two of Three Parachutes in Test
                                 Feb. 12, 2013 — NASA engineers have demonstrated the agency's Orion spacecraft can land safely if one of its three main parachutes fails to inflate during deployment.

              The test was conducted Tuesday in Yuma, Ariz., with the parachutes attached to a test article. Engineers rigged the parachutes so only two would inflate, leaving the third to flag behind, when the test capsule was dropped from a plane 25,000 feet above the Arizona desert.
"Today is a great validation of the parachute system," said Chris Johnson, a NASA project manager for Orion's parachute system. "We never intend to have a parachute fail, but we've proven that if we do, the system is robust for our crew to make it to the ground safely."
Orion's parachutes will perform in ways no landing system for a spacecraft carrying humans has been required to do before. Because Orion will return to Earth from greater distances, it will reenter Earth's atmosphere at speeds of more than 20,000 mph. After re-entry, astronauts will rely on the parachutes to slow the spacecraft for a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
This 21,000-pound capsule needs only two main parachutes and one drogue parachute. But NASA spacecraft, particularly those carrying humans, are designed to keep working when something goes wrong. So, Orion will be equipped with three main parachutes and two drogues, providing each system one backup parachute.
In December, engineers simulated a failure of one of the drogue parachutes in a test that ended with a safe landing, proving the system design is valid.
Tuesday's test was the eighth parachute engineering development drop test. The next is scheduled for May. The system also will be put to the test in 2014 when Orion makes its first flight test. During the mission, an uncrewed capsule will travel 3,600 miles from Earth, farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans has gone in more than 40 years.

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Lanista пишет:
Вот и отлично.

Да. Теперь мы покажем, чего стоим. На самом деле.

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Texas Congressmen visit Orion

Congressman Steve Stockman, Texas 36th district, and Congressman Randy Weber, Texas 14th district, visited NASA's Johnson Space Center. Orion program manager Mark Geyer discussed the status and accomplishments of the Orion program.

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Orion Spacecraft ‏@NASA_Orion
KSC training stacking operations with Launch Abort System and Crew Module pathfinders pic.twitter.com/K4Cjh6C4zn
01:37 - 26 февр. 2013

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ADS ‏@ADS2013
IofD- @NASA_Orion little sporty sister, she's testing out the parachute system in the desert, learn more #aiaadaytona pic.twitter.com/zMLJo5L3Y6
Orion Spacecraft
2:49 - 27 февр. 2013

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NASA On Course to Launch Orion Flight Test
 
02.28.13
 

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The first spacecraft NASA has designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo era is well on its way to making a flight test next year, agency officials said Wednesday. The mission is planned for launch in September 2014, and will see an Orion capsule orbit Earth without a crew and return through the atmosphere at speeds unseen since astronauts last returned fr om the moon in 1972.
 
 "It's a key element of our overall plan to get humans beyond Earth orbit as quickly as we can," said Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Division.
 
 Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1, will be the first chance engineers get to test Orion's design in space. Flying atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, the spacecraft will be pressurized as it would be if astronauts were onboard. It will orbit the Earth twice on a track that will take it more than 3,600 miles above us, about 15 times higher than the International Space Station.
 
 From that height, Orion will be steered to a re-entry at speeds of about 20,000 mph, slamming into the atmosphere to test whether the heat shield will protect the spacecraft adequately.
 
 "It allows us to stress the heat shield in conditions that are very close to what we will see coming back from a region around the moon," said Mark Geyer, Orion program manager. "This is going to help us make our heat shield lighter, safer and more reliable."
 
 Launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the spacecraft will carry scores of instruments. Even the heat shield will have instruments to measure temperature and plasma flow around the spacecraft as it endures the searing conditions of high-speed reentry.
 
 Engineers will use the readings to update computer models and refine designs for the spacecraft, ground support equipment and the in-development Space Launch System rocket. The agency also will provide the data to the agency's commercial partners developing their own spacecraft.
 
 Orion will land under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean wh ere recovery teams from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Department of Defense will retrieve it and return it to Florida.
 
 Just as the mission will help spacecraft designers, the recovery will show those on the ground what to expect when they begin retrieving crews after long missions into deep space, said Pepper Phillips, director of the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program based at Kennedy.
 
 "The teams are exercising some static tests now, but we're going to be ready with this full-up active test of a live spacecraft," Phillips told reporters who had gathered in the Young-Crippen Firing Room at Kennedy for the update Feb. 27.
 
 The firing room, which has been refurbished and extensively modified since last hosting a space shuttle launch, will give engineers direct links to the Orion after it is powered up later this year. Launch controllers will follow the mission from the same firing room, as well.
 
 NASA designed Orion as a versatile spacecraft able to handle the hardships of flying safely far beyond Earth's atmosphere to take astronauts to distant destinations such as an asteroid and Mars. Starting in 2017, Orion spacecraft will be paired with the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), a massive rocket in development more powerful than the Saturn V that propelled astronauts to the moon.
 
 Although EFT-1 will focus largely on testing the Orion spacecraft, it also will aid the teams designing and building the SLS, said Todd May, program manager for the new booster.
 
 "There are a lot of things about this mission that helps SLS," May said. "A lot of this data we're going to use to understand the structural properties, the aero-loading, the guidance navigation and control that we feed back into our calculations."
 
 The SLS team, based at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala., designed and built an adapter ring for this mission that will connect Orion's broad base with the much narrower Delta IV second stage.
 
 While the Orion spacecraft takes shape inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy, the heat shield's skin and skeleton have been finished. The heat-resistant coating will be applied next month and the all-important component will be shipped to Kennedy in July for attachment to the spacecraft.
 
 NASA has designed the mission to evaluate how the spaceship behaves in 10 of the 16 highest risk areas for a crew. Avionics systems, software and the myriad other elements that go into a spacecraft are expected to get a rigorous workout. Those elements are making their way into the spacecraft in a careful procession as Lockheed Martin builds up Orion into a working spacecraft.
 
 "We all have these great (computer) models but when you fly in the real environment, does it behave as you expect," Geyer said.
 
 The flight will begin a series of flight tests for the Orion and Space Launch System programs as the agency moves toward launching astronauts into space in 2021. Orion is scheduled to fly a second test mission in 2017 aboard the first Space Launch System booster.
 
 Along the way, engineers also will conduct smaller-scale flight tests to evaluate the performance of specific systems such as the escape rocket designed to pull a crew out of harm's way in the event of an emergency during launch and ascent.
 
 The progression from concept drawings to working with mockups and replicas to building the actual spacecraft reinvigorates the teams, the officials said.
 
 "I think it helps keep the team's morale up and you want to see a steady beat of successes as you move forward," May said.
 
 "Now we're actually doing it," Geyer said. "It shows you that we're putting the expertise into actually making it happen."

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http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/Triprogrambriefing.html

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The Orion EFT-1 Heatshield carrier structure ready for transport to Textron in Boston, MA. pic.twitter.com/gF1IEG301l
26 марта 13 в 1:36

Orion EFT-1 Heatshield being loaded into the Super Guppy transport plane. pic.twitter.com/Tn9pbTnwnK
26 марта 13 в 0:53

Lockheed Martin ‏@LockheedMartin
PHOTO: Super Guppy will land in Boston Tue; @NASA_Orion heat shield goes to @Textrondefense Wed │ http://ow.ly/i/1L1aO
26 марта 13 в 2:31

26 марта 13 в 1:21
PHOTO: @NASA_Orion's heat shield measures 16.5 ft across and is made of titanium & carbon fiber │ http://ow.ly/i/1KZyt

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Lockheed Martin ‏@LockheedMartin
PHOTO: From yesterday's @NASA_Orion heat shield transport: Super Guppy lands in Denver snow │ http://ow.ly/i/1Lf1n 
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26 марта 13 в 18:05

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NASA Invites Media to View Orion, Speak With Kennedy Space Center Director

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is offering media representatives at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida an opportunity on Monday, April 15, to see Orion, the spacecraft that could take astronauts on a sample collection mission to an asteroid as early as 2021.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/apr/HQ_M13-061_Orion_Media_Avail.html