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NASA's Space Launch System Passes Critical Design Review, Drops Saturn V Color Motif  NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) blasts off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in this artist rendering showing a view of the liftoff of the Block 1 70-metric-ton (77-ton) crew vehicle configuration. Credit: NASA/MSFC
Story/imagery updated The SLS, America's first human-rated heavy lift rocket intended to carry astronauts to deep space destinations since NASA's Apollo moon landing era Saturn V, has passed a key design milestone known as the critical design review (CDR) thereby clearing the path to full scale fabrication. NASA also confirmed they have dropped the Saturn V white color motif of the mammoth rocket in favor of burnt orange to reflect the natural color of the SLS boosters first stage cryogenic core. The agency also decided to add stripes to the huge solid rocket boosters. (...)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2015. | Permalink | 4 comments |
Post tags: Apollo, apollo 11 mission, deep space, EFT-1, EM-1, ET, Heavy Lift, human spaceflight, ISS, Journey to Mars, kennedy space center, KSC, Michoud Assembly Facility, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Orion Capsule, Orion EFT-1, Orion EM-1, pad 39B, RS-25, Saturn V rocket, SLS, sls core stage, SLS Mobile Launcher, sls orion, SLS-1, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Shuttle, SRB
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Monster Cat 5 Hurricane Patricia Strongest Ever Recorded Menaces Millions in Mexico; Seen from ISS  "Hurricane #Patricia approaches #Mexico. It’s massive. Be careful" in this image taken by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the ISS on Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly
More images and videos below Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm in recorded history with winds exceeding 190 mph (305 km/h) is right now menacing millions in Mexico after suddenly intensifying with little warning over the past day, threatening widespread catastrophic destruction as it barrels towards frightened residents along the nations Pacific coast and makes landfall this evening, Friday, Oct. 23. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured striking photos, above and below, of Hurricane Patricia this afternoon from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Other NASA and NOAA weather satellites are actively monitoring and measuring the strongest storm on the planet right now.(...)
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Post tags: Catagory 5 Hurricane, Earth, Earth Observation, extreme weather, GOES West, Hurricane Patricia, hurricanes, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Mexico, NASA, NASA Goddard, NOAA, Scott Kelly, Strongest Hurricane in history
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampling Probe Completes Instrument Install/Assembly, Enters 'Test Drive' Phase  The high gain antenna and solar arrays were installed on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft prior to it moving to environmental testing. Credits: Lockheed Martin Corporation OSIRIS-Rex, the first American spacecraft ever aimed at snatching pristine samples from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth for exquisite analysis by researchers world-wide with the most advanced science instruments has successfully completed its assembly phase and moved into the "test drive" phase – just ten months before blastoff, following installation of all its science instruments at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. The launch window for OSIRIS-REx opens next fall on September 3, 2016 on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back. Bennu is a (...)
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Post tags: Asteroid Bennu, asteroid sample return, Asteroids, Atlas V rocket, Bennu, cape canaveral, KSC, Lockheed Martin, NASA, OCAMS, OSIRIS-REx, sample return, SLC-41, ULA
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Scientists Want ExoMars Rover to Land at Oxia Planum  Possible future Mars landing site in Oxia Planum. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. The joint ESA and Russian ExoMars rover's top priority is to search the Martian surface for signs of life, past or present, and scientists think they know just the spot where – if life ever existed or exists on Mars – it might be found. Today the ExoMars team announced that the equatorial region named Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site. "Our preliminary analysis shows that Oxia Planum appears to satisfy the strict engineering constraints while also offering some very interesting opportunities to study, in situ, places where biosignatures might best be preserved," said Jorge Vago, ESA's project scientist.
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Post tags: exomars, Mars, Missions
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