This is a major one," said Pablo de León, chair of the space studies department at UND, in a statement. On July 8, 2009, the full-size Orion capsule, encased in a bullet-shaped fairing ...
NASA’s human-rated Orionspacecraft rode empty beyond the natural satellite and back, to prove it can safely carry astronauts someday from Earth to the Moon. But Orion is just a space taxi ...
The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.