Alternative Orion Missions Proposed

skywatcher2501 writes "Lockheed Martin, the company producing NASA's new Orion spacecraft, published three videos (news article in German) showing alternative Orion missions. Great efforts are made to show Orion's flexibility as a space transportation system beyond the goals of the Constellation program." The three videos, respectively, illustrate ISS missions with cargo in low-Earth orbit; autonomous use of the service module; and maintenance missions from low-earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit.

Comments

It's called what?

[tufa.king.nerdy]

Orion should have laser guns, not parachutes?!? I guess it's only a spacecraft until reentry.

Underfunded?

[amightywind]

The $3 billion that Obama just set alight with the 'cash for clunkers' program could have been used to accelerate the Constellation program, not to mention the hundreds of billions pissed away on the 'porkulus'. Perhaps some of it can be rescinded by the next congress and transfered to NASA.