Is This the Spacecraft of the Future

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In a recent issue of Boys’ Life we featured a cool view of NASA’s Orion Crew Module. Here’s some more detail.

The module will serve as home for future astronauts during missions to faraway destinations throughout our solar system. While we’re not sure when our astronauts will begin missions to places like Mars and other planets, we at least know how they will be traveling… in style.

About the Orion:

The Orion MPCV (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle) is based on the Orion design requirements for traveling beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.

  • Spacecraft to serve as the primary crew vehicle for missions beyond LEO
  • Capable of conducting regular in-space operations (rendezvous, docking, extravehicular activity) in conjunction with payloads delivered by the Space Launch System (SLS) for missions beyond LEO
  • Capability to be a backup system for International Space Station cargo and crew delivery

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31 Comments

    • Yah, when will that happen. I know that Mars is a capable habitation site, but it might not be suitable due to the resources weed have to ship back and forth every now and then. Plus, it would take about 90+ years to get there.

    • Yah, when will that happen. I know that Mars is a capable habitation site, but it might not be suitable due to the resources weed have to ship back and forth every now and then. Plus, it would take about 90+ years to get there

    • Maybe it’s shaped that way just because it’s safer that way, or maybe the way it goes in space is different. (It does look like a half-space ship, half-UFO. 😉 )

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  1. the front of it looks like a robot face but it looks cool i wonder in the future they can make a thing that can let peaple live on the moon and i think this is possibole if some body can make a robot that helps nasa and it responds to there voice kinda like a toy robot and i am a nasa and sience nerd but any ways is it possible to sky dive from the moon?

  2. There was a guy named Italy that was Hungary so he went to get some Turkey and slipped on Greece and ran into China. 🙁 😐 😮 😕 🙂 😉

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