Pusher Design A Departure From Traditional Tractor Escape Systems
NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Friday at the company's West Texas launch site, firing its pusher-escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital crew capsule from a simulated propulsion module.
Mission Concept Established For Automatic Lunar Lander Vehicle To Land Near The Moon’s South Pole In 2019
European space technology company Astrium has presented the major results of its Lunar Lander Phase B1 study at the ESA Preliminary System Requirement Review Carried out on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), the study has consolidated the mission concept for automatic landing near the Moon’s south pole in 2019 as well as the provisional design of the lunar lander vehicle.
Launched Tuesday Morning Aboard A Soyuz Spacecraft
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on their mission to the International Space Station at 0651 EDT Tuesday. The trio lifted off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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