What Does It Take to Build a Spacecraft for Human Flight?
Here’s a look the latest achievements and milestones for the Orion spacecraft as engineers build, test and test some more to get the vehicle ready for its first orbital test flight in 2014.
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3. Voutelamberopipi 128 days ago
A writer once said: "we can't even solve our problems here, why are we spending money on this?" But I gotta admit that finding something outthere would be awesome.
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Seriously? We're going back to vehicles that are the size of Apollo capsules? And they think they can get people and equipment to Mars or beyond in that?
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5. librabooks 128 days ago
Seems a bit like the US debt. Skyrocketing and spent on the wrong things.
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6. Comment rated too low. Show this comment dogfish 128 days ago
it doesn't look like a big step for the mankind 
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#2 & #4 this is just the Earth return vehicle. on long duration missions they will launch other modules into orbit on other rockets then the capsule with the astronauts will pick them up before going to thier destination.
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Americans? Advanced? Hardly. These colonials still use the archaic weights and measures system, lbs and ounces instead of kg and grams, feet and inches instead of metres and centimetres, fahrenheit instead of celsius, tons instead of tonnes, gallons instead of litres.....They think Paris is in Texas, they spell a lot of English words incorrectly and they've buggered up every war they've ever attended. There's not much hope here.
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#8 Our systems of weights and measures has made us the only super power in the world and the only nation to put men on the moon (multiple times). We helped save most of Europe (and your England) from Nazi domination twice even though Germany was no threat to the US. Your sorry ass needs to study history.
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#8 - Not only did we colonials whip your ass twice, we pulled your ass out of the frying pan in two world wars. Get your history correct and have your teeth straighten.
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1. Johnnosk 128 days ago
50 years more engineering knowledge from the early days of NASA, it will be interesting to see this thing fly!