Image: After individual Composite Crew Module parts were fabricated and oven-cured, they were assembled for a “dry fit check” prior to final assembly and shipment to NASA’s Langley Research Center in ...

Engineers at NASA’s Langley (Va.) Research Center are scheduled to deliver a full-scale test article of the Composite Crew Module (CCM), designed and sized for the agency’s Orion Crew Exploration ...

ATK: Alliant Techsystems has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design that ...

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: AT) has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design ...

A NASA programme manager confirms aluminium-lithium remains the favoured material to serve as the primary structure for the Orion crew module despite an ongoing, two-year programme to develop a mostly ...

Integration of the ESM-2 for Orion. Photo Credit: Airbus It was announced on Oct. 6 that the second composites-intensive European Service Module (ESM-2), built by Airbus (Toulouse, France) for NASA’s ...

NASA’s Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle has been designed to transport a crew of six to and from deep space, including an asteroid (≈2025) and Mars (≈2030). It comprises two modules: the Crew Module ...

The ESM is a key element of Orion, the next-generation spacecraft that will carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since the Apollo programme ended in the 1970s. The module ...

Engineers will deflate and then attempt to repressurize an experimental expandable crew module attached to the International Space Station early Saturday in hopes of freeing up a jam of some sort that ...