John F. Kerry

AWESOME.... if obama wont use the orion capsule, at least someone can...

Lockheed Martin's Proposed L2-Farside Mission Lockheed Martin

The Obama administration may have axed NASA’s ambitious manned moon exploration plans for even an even more ambitious deep space exploration agenda, but for those developing the technologies that will one day take us to deep space the moon is just too ripe a testing ground to ignore. Lockheed Martin is pitching NASA what’s being called an L2-Farside Mission that would launch a manned Orion spacecraft into a stationary halo orbit on the other side of the moon.

The mission, Lockheed says, will serve several purposes. Most immediately, it would allow astronauts to study, via unmanned robots, some lunar real estate that hasn’t been seen with human eyes since the Apollo missions. But its real function is to test out technologies and skills that will be necessary to make a manned trip to an asteroid, and then on to Mars.

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The idea is to park an Orion space capsule at the L2 Lagrange point about 40,000 miles above the moon’s far side, where the combined gravity from the Earth and the moon would allow the spacecraft to essentially hover in one place in sync with the moon. From there, the astronauts would deploy and conduct remotely-operated surface science, collecting rock samples and exploring the South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the oldest craters in the solar system. From the L2 point, the capsule would continuously maintain line of sight with both the Earth and the far side of the moon.

But the mission would also serve as a test bed for everything from the Orion capsule to the astronauts themselves. The medium-duration missions would test the durability of both the crew and the vehicle over several one-month spans before attempting an asteroid mission, which would likely last six months to ensure both bodies and capsules could withstand prolonged doses to deep space radiation. It would also allow NASA and Lockheed to demonstrate the high-speed reentry necessary for return trips from deep space – speeds reaching up to 50 percent faster than re-entry from LEO.

Lastly, astronauts on an L2-Farside mission would travel 15 percent farther from Earth than the Apollo astronauts did and spend nearly three times longer out in the vacuum. Essentially, the L2-Farside missions would be stepping-stones to prove that human stamina and technological wherewithal are both where they need to be to take the next big step out into deep space.

Of course, Lockheed isn’t going anywhere by itself. To get to the Lagrange point without resorting to a complicated multi-rocket scheme, Lockheed needs NASA to supply a new heavy lift launch vehicle – something that the space agency is working on but doesn’t have on the shelf. It a new heavy lifter does materialize, Lockheed sees an L2-Farside mission feasible as early as 2016.

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Flamingnun

You need to learn how to copy and paste without highlighting every link on the goddamn page.

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SageTree

Space explorations value or worth I will with hold comment.

My interest is not having "Space and the Universe" privatized....

IE- Imperialism/Colonialism.

And hope we can sincerely recognize how 'well' that worked out the first time.

If we are going to counter-act gravities pull, we should also be transcending the paradigms that are holding us down as a planet and be gravitating to the 'hope for a better life in the mystery that surrounds us'... in other words, potential, which exploration is grounded in.

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John F. Kerry

Lockheed Reserves Delta 4 for 2013 Orion Flight | SpaceNews.com

they are also negotiating to buy a delta launch rocket to test the orion in 2014 or 2015.... THIS IS FRIGGEN AWESOME!

I love lockheed martin, first they build the f22 and f35, add in a few b2s.... and now they are gonna keep going with orion in spite of obamas foolishness.... by the time another president rolls around the orion will hopefully be ready to go and lockheed will have saved us from obamas stupid squandering of america's space tech lead.

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SageTree

Lest we forget that Pelosi no doubt has something to do with this squandering

Honestly. I'm glad to read about something that excites your Juanson.

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Flamingnun

Northrop Grumman built the B2...

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SageTree

I teh rockets particularly red ones

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John F. Kerry

i figured one of them was grumman , thanks for the corrections there flamingnun, glad to see u read my posts so carefully , i should periodically insert small mistakes to check if people are reading

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SageTree

you mean that isn't what you've been doing that for?





Love ya' buddy.

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The Rev

The way I see it, if we can put a giant multi-national corporation on the moon, then one day, maybe, we can put ALL the giant multi-national corporations on the moon.

Bravo, Lockheed!



The Rev

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Roach

and then nuke it.

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SageTree

Yo.... when they cover up the moon with an advertisement for "Coke" or whoever....

.....I'm just putting it out there I'm going to go bat-shit on someone for sure.

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Roach

now if china will only pay for it...

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farmergiles

It's a far more valid way of spending cash than nukes.

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SageTree

Welll you got me there.... I would give 100% of my support to that comparison.

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José

in other news I watched star wars last night. if the death star was real, I'd totally join the dark side.

Roach

mmmmmmmmmm

if government is going to run schools in America , they really really could do a better job.





(from a unemployed technicians point of view.)

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