soonercruiser
5/24/2011, 09:15 PM
NASA Unveils New Spaceship for Deep Space Exploration
I would have to see lots more details....but it looks like samo...samo.
(Was kinda hoping for a anti-gravity design from one of our alien craft!) :eek:
NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to develop a new deep space vehicle, one based on an earlier capsule concept, in order to send astronauts on expeditions to an asteroid, and then on to Mars.
The spaceship, known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion spacecraft, NASA officials announced today (May 24). Orion was part of NASA's now-canceled Constellation program, which aimed to return astronauts to the moon by the 2020s. [Photos: NASA's MPCV for Deep Space Flights]
President Barack Obama shut down the Constellation program last year, tasking NASA instead with sending people to an asteroid by 2025, and then to aim for crewed Mars missions by the 2030s. Modifying the Orion capsule design — rather than drawing up plans for an entirely new spaceship — should help make that feasible, agency officials said.
"We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there," NASA adminstrator Charlie Bolden said in a statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/24/nasa-unveils-new-spaceship-deep-space-exploration/?test=faces
Constellation Program
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html
I would have to see lots more details....but it looks like samo...samo.
(Was kinda hoping for a anti-gravity design from one of our alien craft!) :eek:
NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to develop a new deep space vehicle, one based on an earlier capsule concept, in order to send astronauts on expeditions to an asteroid, and then on to Mars.
The spaceship, known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion spacecraft, NASA officials announced today (May 24). Orion was part of NASA's now-canceled Constellation program, which aimed to return astronauts to the moon by the 2020s. [Photos: NASA's MPCV for Deep Space Flights]
President Barack Obama shut down the Constellation program last year, tasking NASA instead with sending people to an asteroid by 2025, and then to aim for crewed Mars missions by the 2030s. Modifying the Orion capsule design — rather than drawing up plans for an entirely new spaceship — should help make that feasible, agency officials said.
"We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there," NASA adminstrator Charlie Bolden said in a statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/24/nasa-unveils-new-spaceship-deep-space-exploration/?test=faces
Constellation Program
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html