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Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the up-up-and-away dept.

Lord_Slepnir writes "Lockheed Martin has won a contract to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle that will eventually take humans to the moon and then on to Mars. This vehicle will hopefully also replace the aging space shuttle fleet. According to NASA the vehicle will have manned missions by 2014 and moon missions by no later by 2020."

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  1. great by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lockheed Martin has won a contract to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle that will eventually take humans to the moon

    Great, the US will finally make it to the moon.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  2. Outside the box creativity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "NASA told the contractors to build a capsule that looks just like Apollo"

    Extra points were awarded to Lockheed for their proposal to use vacuum tubes.