“It looked beautiful from here,” Ashley Tarpley, NASA’s range flight safety lead for today’s test, said during a NASA broadcast of the procedure, reports Space.com. “I think that was excellent, we ...

Alliant Techsystems (ATK), which is already developing the main launch abort system (LAS) motor under development for NASA's Orion crew launch vehicle, also will build the attitude-control motor for ...

HAMPTON, Va. - NASA has completed production of hardware for use in the first flight test of the astronaut escape system for the Constellation Program’s Orion crew capsule. The hardware - a structure ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA has completed the first full-scale rocket motor test for the Constellation Program’s Orion spacecraft, a test of a solid rocket that will be used to jettison the craft’s launch ...

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