Students Worldwide Will Help Track LCROSS Spacecraft
In an unprecedented scientific collaboration with a public
school, the Lewis Center for Educational Research will team with
NASA to lead students worldwide in tracking and monitoring a NASA
lunar mission scheduled for launch in early 2009. The collaboration
will provide a unique opportunity for students to become active
participants in the NASA lunar mission, as the space agency looks
to inspire the next generation of US space explorers and
scientists.
Scale models of the Orion crew exploration vehicle recently were
tested at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL, at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and at a wave tank at Texas
A&M University in College Station.
First Such Milestone For A US Rocket In Over 35 Years
NASA announced Wednesday a major step toward building the
nation's next generation launch vehicle, with the successful
completion of the Ares I rocket preliminary design review.
On the heels of a successful round of tests conducted by NASA on
its J-2X rocket engine, on Tuesday the space agency awarded Pratt
& Whitney Rocketdyne a contract change to provide additional
sea-level and simulated-altitude ground tests for the latest
variant of the rocket engine that helped carry Apollo astronauts to
the Moon.
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