Orion capsule tests lithobraking again

Another drop test of the recovery system ended up the same way the first
one did, with a smashed test capsule:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/...op-test-fails/
No photos or video available yet.

Pat

Pat Flannery writes:

No photos or video available yet.

Camera gear aboard the capsule?

Dave

On Feb 23, 5:05�pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 2/23/2010 7:47 AM, David Spain wrote:

Pat �writes:

No photos or video available yet.

Camera gear aboard the capsule?

Don't know; NASA Watch is digging around for info on all of this:http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/0...r-orion-p.html

Pat

Testing a system thats already been declared dead

Did nasa do any of this during apollo?

On 2/23/2010 7:47 AM, David Spain wrote:
Pat writes:

No photos or video available yet.

Camera gear aboard the capsule?

Don't know; NASA Watch is digging around for info on all of this:
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/0...r-orion-p.html

Pat

wrote:
On Feb 23, 5:05?pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 2/23/2010 7:47 AM, David Spain wrote:

Pat ?writes:

No photos or video available yet.

Camera gear aboard the capsule?

Don't know; NASA Watch is digging around for info on all of
this:http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/0...r-orion-p.html

Pat

Testing a system thats already been declared dead

Did nasa do any of this during apollo?

Yes.


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Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

In article tatelephone,
Pat Flannery wrote:
Another drop test of the recovery system ended up the same way the first
one did, with a smashed test capsule:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/...op-test-fails/
No photos or video available yet.

Despiriting.... I was really hoping that NASA would at least be able to keep
Orion going, or something like it.


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OM wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:09:09 +0000 (UTC), (Craig
Bingman) wrote:

Despiriting.... I was really hoping that NASA would at least be able to keep
Orion going, or something like it.

...The hints are - at least what I'm hearing out of JSC - is that they
hope to at least keep the Orion capsule alive so that it can be used
on these commercial boosters that the Obama misadministration believes
will magically appear from the defense contractors.

There's nothing "magical" about the Delta IV and Atlas V. They've both
been flying for years.