Orion, our new space capsule.

he Orion crew capsule will carry astronauts back to the moon and later to Mars. The first flight with astronauts aboard is planned for no later than 2014. Orion's first flight to the moon is planned for no later than 2020.

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[dcb1138]

NOTE TO SELF....buzz words for NASA "safe, reliable, cost effective"

[KinaNafasi]

so the lunar lander is jettisoned; why wouldnt it be used as extra space for the astronauts. that wouldnt be a concern for a few day trip to the moon, but to Mars!!! Define Claustrophobia!! Id say fuel is the main concern, but jeez!

[wonderhappyness]

they can easy hire the china people to make them fireworks we use on 4 july to send people into space you know those rocket shits used for 4 july are you serios

you suck

[bosqii]

they already have evrything they need to make better ship but something is happeing that is keeping nasa for more than 30 years in blackness

[ti994apc]

Use Shuttle parts and you get Shuttle prices. Ares1 is a complete waste. Falcon9 is much safer, does more, and cost a less. This has to do with big Lockheed keeping big government contracts and less about progress. We can assemble a beyond earth system in several low cost launches. We did not need a giant rocket to make another skylab when we made ISS. We don't need a multi-billion dollar all in one system. We can assemble everything with Falcon9, Falcon9 heavy, and Delta, and AresV.

[dcb1138]

Correction : OUR NEW CGI spacecraft

[PlatinumX098]

The capsule design is the way of the future. Boeing, Space X, and Bigelow are already designing their own crew capsules. They will be able to dock onto private space stations and their shape is optimum for space travel and entry into planets and orbital bodies like moons. A shape like the Shuttle design is inefficient. Future space craft will not look anything like the current Space Shuttle - they are being retired and are vastly outdated.

[PlatinumX098]

So NASA is now making their own flying saucers? Now when people see UFOs, we will know it's NASA or a private space company. The latest space craft designs are mostly capsule shaped flying saucer looking things.

[fuzzywzhe]

@ripcurlcns haha - talk sense to a fool.

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The space shuttle can't go into geosynchronous orbit, it would burn up on re-entry to the atmosphere. There's a reason capsules have their shape, although you wouldn't know it, and I don't feel like teaching you.

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Incidentally, the original space shuttle design was published, and I had to read it, in my senior year of electrical engineering. What was built and what was originally designed are entirely different things.

[ripcurlcns]

@fuzzywzhe try selling that to the next gen of kids , cause your not foolin me fool.