For more than 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, was viewable under a Plexiglas shield at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, where curators reentered ...

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Chasing Orion: This is the second in a series of stories leading up to the April 2019 launch of Orion’s launch abort system, which is managed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. As the Orion ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL -Aerodynamically exact mock-ups of NASA's Orion spacecraft and a launch abortsystem arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, marking a key milestone inwork toward launch this year ...

Could they return on a Juno-like trajectory over the pole, with the first aero-brake maneuver being a big one, followed by a few smaller ones, then a final harder re-entry to reduce the return to 1-2 ...