One Year After EFT-1: What's Been Learned, What's Ahead for NASA's Orion in 2016

By Emily Carney, on December 5th, 2015

It’s been one year since the successful Orion Exploration Flight Test-1, and in the time since NASA and Lockheed Martin have learned quite a bit about how their capsule flies in space and have begun applying those lessons to the actual spacecraft that will fly beyond the moon in 2018 on the first […]

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Critical Year for SLS Development Continues With Base Heating Tests

By Emily Carney, on February 4th, 2015

From NASA: “A two-percent scale model of the Space Launch System core stage RS-25 engines, in the pictures at left, and a model of the SLS without the twin boosters is used for nominal, core-stage-only testing at CUBRC Inc. in Buffalo, New York.” Image Credit: NASA/MSFC

NASA is taking further steps bringing the […]

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What Did NASA Learn From Orion’s First Test Flight? NASA Administrator Bolden Tells AmericaSpace

By Ken Kremer, on January 14th, 2015

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (center) and Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Vice President (right of center) for Orion inspect a Jacquard loom operating at Bally Ribbon Mills in Bally, Pa., on Jan. 9, 2015, that is weaving a 3-D Quartz perform material that will be used as a key component in Orion’s critical thermal […]

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