The next stop was a nearby building where the Launch Abort System was installed on the Orion spacecraft. The tower-like abort ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) --NASA's Orion spacecraft is set to take its first trip into space this week. Though the craft won't go far -- just up, twice around in low Earth orbit and back -- it's an ...

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NASA’s Orion crew vehicle’s smart cockpit will monitor the vehicle's health, use synthetic, enhanced and virtual vision systems, have advanced on-screen symbology and may eventually employ a talking ...

The pieces are coming together for NASA’s next spaceship Orion as space agency engineers begin working with lead contractor Lockheed Martin to shape the vehicle’s cockpit. “We’re bringing the design ...

Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman try out a prototype display and control system inside an Orion spacecraft mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the first ascent and abort ...

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA’s Constellation program office has asked engineers at Langley Research Center here to develop hardware intended to protect astronauts from potentially dangerous levels of ...

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