NASA Shows Off Mock-Up of Mars-Capable Spacecraft

N!NJA writes with this snippet of a report from Reuters: "NASA gave visitors to the National Mall in Washington a peek at a full-size mock-up of the spacecraft designed to carry US astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars one day. The design of Orion was based on the Apollo spacecraft, which first took Americans to the moon. Although similar in shape, Orion is larger, able to carry six crew members rather than three, and builds on 1960s technology to make it safer." They're still working on the parachute.

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Life isn't that simple. If we didn't have leaders of countries comitting attrocities (ala rowanda, iraq before hussein was deposed, afghanistan, serbia, nazi germany, etc) and then other countries fighting over dumb ass shit (ala US vs Soviet Russia) and then other countries oppressing their people when they really don't need to (ala China) then we wouldn't have a need for a military. Trust me I wish we didn't need it. I wish we didn't need guns or other weapons. I wish we lived in a happy place. But humans are violent in nature and as long as there is someone out there who may decide to blow me up then I want my team to have the biggest and most powerful guns to keep them at bay.