A Look Inside Orion

America will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle. Making its first flights early in the next decade, Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. This is a look inside the spacecraft as it continues through the development phase at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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Science & Technology

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• Orion
• Constellation
• NASA
• moon
• lunar
• spacecraft
• Ares
• Altair
• capsule
• crew
• exploration
• vehicle

[Seanamon78]

It's a MOCKUP of the Orion capsule you IDIOTS!!!!!

God. Most youtube users are mouth-breathing retards.

[aussielung]

Not really, The shuttle's design was not meant for anything other than space station docking or low earth orbit. The new Ares, Orion and Constellation designs are specifically worked out so that the craft can be used for not only low earth orbit and space station docking but also for moon landing. The shuttle is simply incapable of landing and taking off from the moon.

[louielouie11224]

@SebastianAasheim From what I've seen of concepts of Mars missions, they won't be using the Orion as the ship, but a stage-to-orbit vehicle. I'm sure they'll have a much larger module to live in for the months it takes to get to Mars.

[SebastianAasheim]

@DVDluvr123 Yeah I think so. They will all be insane sharing a few square meters for 8 months

[Coillscath]

It's sad that it's probably going to end up as little more than a glorified escape pod for ISS, at this stage... :( "Asteroid mission by 2020, then back to the Moon sometime later in the future" is too fuzzy a deadline.

[DVDluvr123]

@SebastianAasheim Do people need a different amount of space based on time?

[SebastianAasheim]

Isn't the space craft way to small for about 3-6 people to travel 8 months to mars?

[aserta]

In the latest nasa video here on youtube i saw something that looked like two pods being linked together. Is such a configuration do-able, in discussion or otherwise thought of?

[N707GW]

Sorry, ran out of characters-- we need, desperately, a continuation of the manned space program. The entire design is based on tested, proven, Man Rated designs. We have far better computing systems. FBW has proven itself on many aircraft. so we have a plasma for a display, but as long as basic backups are provided, just like in aircraft, this will fly and fly well. The heat shield concept is what it should be. This needs funding and now, lets energize America again!!

[N707GW]

We, today, have developed such extreme partisan politics, that it would be simply a pipe dream to think we could interest the American public once again in any sort of a viable manned space program. We were galvanized in 1961 with Kennedy's "Man-Moon-Decade" mandate. We were also for manned space exploration. Unfortunately, the programs were unsustainable. One couldn't fund a war (Yes I am a Vietnam Vet), and the cost of the Saturn V. We also had too many protesters wanting their piece. Lets GO

[craigsjaffe]

I still miss the shuttle : ( more futuristic to land like a jet.

[serpentphoenix]

You guys wanna get serious about colonizing the solar system? Support Nuclear propulsion for space programs. ORION will automatically give mankind control of Sol