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Originally Posted by Tormod
Ooooh...those are beautiful!
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Aren't they? Our moon is so fantastic!
In other news...
For those of you who don't know: NASA is currently working on the
Constellation Program
which will return Americans to the moon by the end of the next decade (if Obama doesn't cancel it
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Anyway, the part that actually holds the astronauts (crew compartment) is the Orion spacecraft, which sits atop the Ares I launch vehicle. In the event that the crew needs to escape during launch or ascent, then an abort system would launch the capsule off of the spacecraft. This is called the Launch Abort System (similar to the one used in the Apollo Program). Well, the reason I bring it up is because this morning, NASA tested an alternative to that abort system, called MLAS, or Max Launch Abort System. The launch took place at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Here's a picture and description of today's test.
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