NASA wants to scale down an early version of the Ares 5 heavy launch vehicle to make a 8 Apollo 2015 orbit around the moon
Scott Horowitz, NASA's assistant administrator for manned flight, says he has asked agency engineers at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to explore the possibility of designing a rocket that could combine the Ares 5 center stage and the Ares 1 upper stage to enable a trip to and from the moon. in the Orion spacecraft a few years before the planned landing on the moon.
"We can carry out a flight of the type carried out by Apollo 8" he said during a press conference. "It will be possible to try the capsule and the service module in the lunar environment as a preparation process for landing and at the same time it will be possible to try a return from the moon at the same speed as that of spacecraft that will land on the moon and return to Earth."
According to Horowitz, one of the important goals of such a mission would be to conduct a full-scale near-landing experiment to provide NASA with experience in controlling where the Orion capsule could land when it reaches the moon in a method known as skip-entry. The Apollo astronauts aimed themselves for a direct landing. "Usually when you return to Earth, you hit the atmosphere and just go in," he said. "Flexibility in choosing the landing site can be achieved if you jump a little back into space and hit the atmosphere again." said.
He said the direct method caused NASA to carefully plan the return date so that they would have control over the ocean strip when the capsules landed. NASA prefers that the Orion spacecraft land on land within the US. The skip method will give the mission planners flexibility and control over the return from the moon.
Skip Altfield, manager of the Orion program at NASA said that in 2011 NASA will carry out unmanned test flights that will return using the skip method. According to him, a missile of the type of Delta 2, for example, can launch a miniature Orion spacecraft far enough from the Earth to achieve the return speed from the Moon without going all the way there.
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Where can I get an explanation about the skip-entry method?
And in 2030, a renewed launch of Sputnik is probably planned.
NASA is back and proving that it's time to shut it down. In the XNUMXs, this body managed to go from nothing to landing a man on the moon, in less than a decade. Today they present such an absurd timetable to reproduce half of that achievement, when they have at their disposal a more mature and advanced technology in the XNUMXs year. This body inflated its creative and entrepreneurial soul over a generation ago. Today it functions as an incubator for salaries and nothing else.
It is interesting to compare the planned cost of the flight to the cost of the Apollo 8 flight.
There is a feeling that the space race is stuck for two reasons
1. There is only one sprinter (the USSR disappeared from the race).
2. The costs of spaceflight are becoming more expensive mainly because of NASA's operational inefficiencies.
Lavi Bilovski, shame on you, you hurt me
Already broken from all these boring ones...
Father, don't be sorry, your answer is in place.
In general, I think there is no big difference between these talkbackists and the graffiti artists on the walls or sometimes even the door rattlers in the restrooms...
There's a difference?
Sorry, according to your IP you are the same one asking trivia questions except you keep spelling my name the same way wrong. Please search in the Google search field. I'm not here to answer trivial questions that can be answered on a website or Wikipedia.
A question to Avi Bilovski who is the fattest person to walk on the moon
The influence of the moon on human behavior