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"Orion, which could one day take astronauts to Mars..." [1] "NASA just tested Orion — a spacecraft that might someday carry people to Mars" [2] "NASA and its
by mmanfrin 12y ago
"Orion, which could one day take astronauts to Mars..." [1]
"NASA just tested Orion — a spacecraft that might someday carry people to Mars" [2]
"NASA and its commercial partners are designing Orion to take astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid in the 2020s, and to Mars and its moons in the 2030s" [3]
"Orion will facilitate human exploration of the Moon, asteroids, and Mars." [4]
"This time, the rocket was unnamed, but the craft is designed eventually to carry humans to Mars" [5]
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/05/368652770/a-succesful-launch-for-nasas-orion-spacecraft http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/05/368652770/a-s...
[2] http://www.vox.com/2014/12/3/7322909/orion-test-flight http://www.vox.com/2014/12/3/7322909/orion-test-flight
[3] http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/splashdown-orion-spaceship-aces-first-flight-test-n262146 http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/splashdown-orion-spaces...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
[5] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/05/nasa-launches-orion-spacecraft-in-boost-for-mars-mission http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/05/nasa-launches...
- danielweber 12y agoYou are repeating news sources that are repeating press releases. The Orion has less than 214 square feet of room. This isn't enough for 4 people to live in for 6 months. NASA says it's for Mars because it gets people excited. But Congress has not instructed them to do a mission to Mars, and Congress is in charge, for better or for worse. There is no mission to Mars.
- ceejayoz 12y agoI would expect a Mars mission to be coupled to a living space during transit. Bigelow's inflatable modules might be a good fit, and they're testing one soon on the ISS.
- sehugg 12y agoOrion was originally designed for extended lunar missions. There were studies that envisioned it as a component of asteroid missions. Probably there are studies applying it to Mars, but I'm not aware of those. http://www.universetoday.com/88434/human-mission-to-an-asteroid-the-orion-mpcv/ http://www.universetoday.com/88434/human-mission-to-an-aster...
- colordrops 12y agoThe majority of news sources are commonly just echo chambers. They all repeat the same incorrect improperly sourced information regularly.