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NASA's Orion Moon Craft Unveiled

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bang-zoom-to-the-moon dept.

Velcroman1 writes "Lockheed Martin on Tuesday unveiled the first Orion spacecraft, a part of what NASA had planned as the sprawlingly ambitious Constellation project that would offer a replacement for the space shuttle — and a means to ferry humans into outer space and back to the moon. Orion and the companion Ares heavy-lift rocket were part of Constellation, a program cancelled under President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal."

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  1. Re:Do we really have to link to foxnews? by 0123456 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A truly progressive president would leave the science to scientists.

    Who would be demanding that Congress end the manned spaceflight boondoggle and put the money into science missions instead. You can fly half a dozen unmanned probes around the solar system for the cost of one shuttle flight, and could have flown hundreds for the cost of ISS.

    Getting NASA out of the launcher business is probably the best thing Obama has ever done.