Will Be Used To Test PICA Material For Reentry Duties
The building blocks for NASA's next-generation manned spacecraft
continue to come together. Boeing announced this week it has
completed a developmental heat shield for NASA's Orion Crew
Exploration Vehicle (CEV) designed to protect future astronauts
from extreme heat during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere following
lunar and low-Earth orbit missions.
One down... one to go. Crew members onboard the International
Space Station crew members successfully relocated a shuttle docking
port to the newly-delivered Harmony node Monday, clearing the way
for Wednesday's planned relocation of Harmony to its permanent
berth adjacent to the Destiny laboratory module.
A colossal and expensive bungle over spy satellites that cost
the US billions, described by one analyst as a "train wreck," would
appear to be a record of how not to build intelligence technology
group.
Where there's smoke... well, NASA isn't sure. A trainee working
inside a spacesuit during a pressure-chamber test last week
reported smelling smoke inside the suit, and that report could
spell trouble for next month's planned launch of the shuttle
Atlantis.
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