After several delays and finally the cancellation of the launch yesterday, the spacecraft is expected to take off today, which will replace the shuttles and, unlike the shuttle, will also allow the transfer of passengers beyond Earth's orbit
Update after launch: Successful launch of the Orion spacecraft on the first test flight * Watch a live broadcast of the operation
More than three years after losing the ability to launch manned space flights, the American space agency is scheduled to conduct the first test of the next generation of manned spacecraft today. NASA will launch the Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its first test flight, unmanned this time. The spacecraft is supposed to circle the Earth twice, and reach a distance of almost 6,000 km from it. At the end of about four hours and almost 100,000 km, it is supposed to fall in the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred kilometers from the coast of California, where it will be picked up by a Navy ship. NASA engineers will test several key systems of the new spacecraft during the test flight, including the radiation shields, heat shields and parachutes. "We want to make sure all these systems are working properly before astronauts fly them," says NASA's Orion mission manager, Mark Geyer. "Orion was designed for more distant flights than the low orbit around the earth, it is a research spacecraft that should take us to the regions around the moon and even to Mars."
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In its conical shape, "Orion" resembles the "Apollo" spaceships, but it is much larger than them and is able to carry seven astronauts for extended flights. Its future versions will also be equipped with solar collectors, which will allow it to generate solar electricity and extend its stay in space. The spacecraft was built by the "Lockheed Martin" corporation with an investment of almost 400 million dollars. The test flight was supposed to take place yesterday (Thursday), but was postponed several times, first due to strong winds and then due to a malfunction in the valve in the launch vehicle. If everything goes well today, NASA is talking about manned test flights in the coming years, and regular flights of "Orion" at the beginning of the next decade: a start to the International Space Station, where it is able to carry more crew members and much more equipment and supplies from the Russian "Soyuz" spacecraft . In the future, NASA plans to land humans on asteroids, and possibly return to the moon. Orion will reach Mars - if at all - in at least twenty years.
For the previous news: The experimental launch planned for today of the Orion spacecraft replacing the shuttle was canceled
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This is another demonstration of social governments, both in Germany and in the Nordic countries and in Brazil, and the economies are thriving.
In Israel, productivity per worker is one of the lowest. An employee who knows that his employment window is 3-5 years is busy surviving and has no motivation to invest in the business. Social Germany owns 400 billion euros in all of Europe except Germany. Are these economies failing because they are not capitalist. USA: Obama is a socialist even though the economy there is capitalist. This merger and bias towards concern for employees does not seem like a wrong decision. Obama has many shortcomings. In the economy, it seems that not everyone believes that we have failed.
In Europe alone there are about 750 American military bases. The bullying of Russia is not innocent. There is a constant attempt to encroach on Russia's defense belt, in Ukraine and Crimea. There is also a defense of Europe against a successful Russia.
When the military infrastructure is cut in such quantities, resources are diverted to the economy.
Another factor in the real success of the USA to recover is the investment in the renewable energy industry and the leveraging of the upheaval of about a decade ago in favor of technological solutions of a smart electricity grid. The USA produces about 360 gigawatts of electricity compared to Israel's 16 gigawatts. The Israeli market is NIS 30 billion for comparison. Every percentage of efficiency and they made 20%, is trillions of dollars.
This is history. The USA today creates 100,000 new jobs a month after the economic collapse in 2008. The USA is returning to space exploration. The price is the reduction of military investments and as a result the fall of about 9 Arab countries.
Forced migration of 13.8 million residents from Syria and Iraq. Obama's attempt to change the demographic balance in the US by expelling about 13 million Hispanics/Negroes/Arabs and easing immigration that works in favor of third world countries more.
The economic recovery came with a scientific boom. At least buds.