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Back in time, 2011 NASA Image: Orion Test

Back in time, 2011 NASA Image: Orion Test

This image was taken in 2011.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the Delta turn basin at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a United Space Alliance (USA) diver helps orient an Orion test article during a roll test. The uprighting tests are part of USA’s research and development program to help develop ground operations support equipment that could be used to reorient and recover an…

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NASA Flashback: Orion Test

NASA Flashback: Orion Test

KSC-2011-5620CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the Delta turn basin at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Space Alliance (USA) divers and boat crew monitor an Orion test article while waiting for its lift bags to inflate. The uprighting tests are part of USA’s research and development program to help develop ground operations support equipment that could be used to reorient and recover…

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NASA press release: Boeing gets $4.2B. SpaceX gets $2.6B.

are you fucking kidding me? The huge national defense contractor (that  doesn't even care enough to bother continuing the program if they didn't get those precious taxpayer dollars) gets more than the small company that has done more in the past ten years for spaceflight than Boeing has done in it's entire lifetime? Fucking politics.

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fucking hell NASA, why are you funding Boeing? the CST-100 is barely a plastic mockup, while SNC has flight hardware and has done free flight tests. Utter bullshit.

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50 years to orbit: Dream Chaser's crazy Cold War backstory

#SuryaRay #Surya The reusable mini-spaceplane is back from the dead—again—and prepping for space. http://dlvr.it/26fkFl @suryaray

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50 years to orbit: Dream Chaser's crazy Cold War backstory

#SuryaRay #Surya The reusable mini-spaceplane is back from the dead—again—and prepping for space. http://dlvr.it/26fkFf @suryaray

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Team Liberty Announces Independent Assessment Panel