NASA urged to return to its roots
“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” — author Robert Heinlein. The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation agrees, and wants NASA to return to its exploration roots. The foundation issued a report in December that not only points out the problems that plague [...]
The aerospace industry is faring much better in Colorado than in other states across the nation — and that holds true in Colorado Springs as well.
Continue reading …NASA has accepted the Orion crew exploration vehicle design as its choice for a multi-purpose crew vehicle to be used in deep space – saving thousands of jobs in Colorado. NASA said the vehicle was the best choice for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and commended the Orion designers for creating it with a reduced budget. [...]
Continue reading …Lockheed Martin Corp. today unveiled a cavernous test facility at its Waterton Canyon site south of Denver, where full-size mock-ups of the space station and the front section of the Orion can be used to practice docking maneuvers. The company also showed off a test version of the Orion spacecraft, which was initially meant to return [...]
Continue reading …Colorado’s congressional delegation, including lawmakers from the Springs, is fighting to save about 1,000 aerospace jobs that are related to the Orion crew-capsule program. The jobs are threatened, they said in a letter to President Obama, because of NASA’s effort to shift termination costs from the Constellation spaceflight program to private government contractors. The federal [...]
Continue reading …Colorado senators and congressmen are welcoming President Barack Obama’s decision to save a version of the Orion space capsule being developed in Colorado.
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