Friday, July 18, 2008

Lunar Modules Get Remodeled (Orion '20)


This is kind of old news, but I am really excited about NASA's potential rendezvous to the moon so I'm going to talk about it anyways.

First of all, the name of the new lunar mission is 'Orion.' If you aren't into astronomy or you live under a rock and can't see the stars there exists a constellation by the same name and if you know me personally you will also know that there is a nebula within the aforementioned constellation that I've been obsessing over for the past year.

Anyways, NASA is currently preparing to start building its first lunar landing devices in over twenty years, and, naturally, technological enhancements made during that time period will come into play when designing the new spacecraft (see image on the left).

I'll write about it in more detail later.

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