Lockheed Martin Makes Strides in Human Space Exploration – Lockheed Martin: Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin today unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC). These two major projects, located at Lockheed Martin’s Waterton Facility near Denver, Colo., showcase the NASA-industry teams’ progress for human space flight, the Orion Project and NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
affordable?
Space exploration is important and a lot of things.
But “affordable”. Maybe in about 5000 years.
Maybe.
I’m glad Spain didn’t stop with Columbus and I’m glad Orion is moving forward regardless of this lame duck President.
I looked at pictures of Mars from the various orbiters that imaged it. What a lonely place it is! Who would want to go there? It’s a thousand times more desolate than, say, the Canyonlands of Utah etc.
The kinds of folks who do hard research in places like Antarctica, probably.
But robots could do this exploration quite capably, couldn’t they? Sure they could, but if there were enough bucks and incentive to do it, who’s to stop brave humans from eventually going to places like that also. More power to them, I would say. Glory has always trumped reason, and besides the grand entertainment dividend thereof shouldn’t be totally ignored.
Is it just me or did Lockheed-Martin just dust off the plans to the Apollo program?
Even the graphics on the side of the rocket are reminiscent of the Apollo.