NASA won't fly manned tests of its next spacecraft, the Orion MPCV, until at least 2021, according to top administrators at the agency. The agency has been developing Orion and the Space Launch System heavy-lift launch vehicle, the rocket that will power the spacecraft, since last year. ...
Her husband, Bob Behnken, was one of two NASA astronauts on the first manned Crew Dragon launch, a trial flight last August marking NASA's first human orbital mission from U.S. soil in nine years, following the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. (Reportin...
The first flight test of NASA's new manned spacecraft may be six months away, but agency engineers are already looking forward to what they will learn from the trial.
attempt to leverage commercial launch capabilities, and 4. provide a growth path for manned space exploration. The safety of next generation vehicles is a prime concern, and NASA aims to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in their safety levels as compared to today's manned launch vehicles,...
Manned spaceflightSpace human factor engineering, considered as one of the most important ingredients of NASA human research program, provides the pivotal ... S Long,BS Dhillon - Springer Berlin Heidelberg 被引量: 1发表: 2015年 Using ISS Earth Observation in Augmented and Virtual Reality to Reach...
As the closest celestial body to the Earth, the moon was the first stop for mankind to start the "interstellar era." From lunar probes, unmanned lunar vehicles to manned landing on the moon, human exploration of the moon has never stopped. ...
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said at a press conference on Saturday a manned return on Starliner would be too dangerous, and the two astronauts are safest staying on the space station. "Spaceflight is risky," he said. "Even at its safest, and even at its most routine. A test fl...
On June 2nd, local time, NASA and Boeing announced that they plan to re-attempt to launch the Boeing Starliner spacecraft on June 5th for a manned test flight. The Starliner spacecraft's manned test flight mission was canceled on June 1st due to technical problems. NASA said that its team...
Yang Liwei, deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, said that China is in the preliminary stage of its manned lunar program and estimated that Chinese astronauts will be able to walk on the moon around 2030. LOW-COST SPACE TRANSPORT ...
At this point the US will find itself without a manned space capability for the first time in decades. China’s space programme, meanwhile, is forging ahead (like India’s, Japan’s and South Korea’s). In 2010 Beijing will launch three spacecraft and build its first space station by ...