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July 26, 2013

Tenth Parachute Test For NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet Of Success

One Of The Three Main Parachutes Was Intentionally Cut Away

A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA's new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its parachutes failed.

Experiment To Study Vehicle Assembly, Formation Flying In Space

Technology designed to test algorithms related to relative attitude control and station-keeping between satellites, retargeting and image plane filling maneuvers, collision avoidance, and fuel-balancing algorithms have been deployed to the ISS.

Commercial Space Transportation Vehicle's Interior Unveiled Ahead Of Critical Design Review

Two NASA astronauts for the first time evaluated communications, ergonomics and crew-interface aspects of the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 capsule, showing how future astronauts will operate in the spacecraft as it transports them to the International Space Station and other low Earth orbit destinations.