Updates Orion (MPCV) Updates and Discussion

[Capt_hensley]

Tell you what, I have made an MS Access database that I use to select the best ship for a given mission. I use that database to "compare" and "discriminate" all the time. I don't change parameters, I just try to use what's been published. Y'all can do what you want, I like having flexible options.

I'm thinking NASA might use this approach for all it's missions, just a thought.

What's new with MPCV?

 

[ky]

Work on the heat shield and thermal protection backshell of the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle ground test article, or GTA, was completed in preparation for environmental testing. This image is of the crew vehicle at the Lockheed Martin Vertical Test Facility in Colorado. The crew vehicle will undergo rigorous testing to confirm its ability to safely fly astronauts through all the harsh environments of deep space exploration missions.

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[Felipi1205]

MPCV

The MPCV will be developed very fast, soon we will see the MPCV liftoff to the ISS! The NASA need build the vehicle in just some years because the USA space program can't stay using the Soyuz rockets to fly! But not so fast like the Apollo program, because on the time of 1960 the Cold War was in the space, the famous space race... So the USA start building this dangerous mission in just some years. The MPCV probably will send humans to the Moon again, but not so fast like the Apollo.
:thumbup:

 

[orb]

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[IronRain]

Orion/MPCV mock up slash-test

Coolest test NASA Langley researchers have done in a while ... make sure you watch until the end! This is the first in a series of tests to see how a mock up of the Orion/Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle survives a water landing. The drop test happened at the same gantry where astronauts learned to land on the moon in the 60s and where dozens of aircraft have been crash tested.

 

[IronRain]

Not entirely sure if it belongs here, but it seems that the propaganda has started

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgCR_DODE_Q&feature=feedu[/ame]

Pretty awesome though.

 

[C3PO]

"This video is private"

 

[Ark]

Video is private and won't play.

I don't think it really matters, though, mission animations are about all we ever got from Constellation before it got cancelled.

 

[orb]

Well, something different for me: "This video has been removed by the user."

 

[IronRain]

Sorry guys, worked fine when I posted it. Seems like it's removed..

 

[francisdrake]

New link to video:

 

[Ark]

That's a lot of stuff that doesn't exist. Capsule hasn't test flown yet, no heavy-lift launcher, no upper stage/habitat module, and the little rendezvous vehicle is complete fiction.

I wish I could be more positive, but Constellation churned out hours of these little animations and none of it wound up existing.

 

[C3PO]

That's a lot of stuff that doesn't exist. Capsule hasn't test flown yet, no heavy-lift launcher, no upper stage/habitat module, and the little rendezvous vehicle is complete fiction.

Well, there's a chance the astronauts have been born by now. :lol:

 

[IronRain]

That's a lot of stuff that doesn't exist. Capsule hasn't test flown yet, no heavy-lift launcher, no upper stage/habitat module, and the little rendezvous vehicle is complete fiction.

I wish I could be more positive, but Constellation churned out hours of these little animations and none of it wound up existing.

When they announced the moon program, the LM also didn't exist. In fact, Gemini wasn't even launched at that time.

I know that constellation failed. But I think that NASA will have a new spacecraft pretty soon. Why? When they announced Constellation, they had the shuttle. They still had a transportation vehicle so they were not in some kind of hurry to develop the new program. In 2 days, the shuttle program will come to an end and I think NASA will soon see that it's not ideal to rely on others to launch their astronauts. So I think it will be more then plans and mock-ups that NASA will come up with in the upcoming years.

This is how I think of it.

 

[Ark]

When they announced the moon program, the LM also didn't exist. In fact, Gemini wasn't even launched at that time.

I know that constellation failed. But I think that NASA will have a new spacecraft pretty soon. Why? When they announced Constellation, they had the shuttle. They still had a transportation vehicle so they were not in some kind of hurry to develop the new program. In 2 days, the shuttle program will come to an end and I think NASA will soon see that it's not ideal to rely on others to launch their astronauts. So I think it will be more then plans and mock-ups that NASA will come up with in the upcoming years.

This is how I think of it.

We can certainly hope that the Shuttle's retirement and the handing of a spaceflight monopoly to Russia will galvanize NASA into making firm decisions and keeping commitments.

Of course, so much of the uncertainty doesn't originate from NASA, but from Congress. Forget about getting a decision on a heavy launch system, those psychopaths are about to voluntarily default on our national debt.

 

[T.Neo]

This MPCV advert has got to be one of the silliest things I've ever seen. :facepalm:

They actually managed to make real spaceflight look as if it was directed by Micheal Bay. And they combined it with the pet project of US Big Aerospace.

And seriously, why does that other space... vehicle... thing, look like a shuttlecraft out of Star Trek? Surely there would be a more optimal shape for a vehicle that is most definitely, a spacecraft...

 

[C3PO]

I like the one-legged landing gear.

 

[Tacolev]

It looks weird because it's based on the chassis for the lunar rover from the constellation program.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

And seriously, why does that other space... vehicle... thing, look like a shuttlecraft out of Star Trek? Surely there would be a more optimal shape for a vehicle that is most definitely, a spacecraft...

That's the Multi Mission Space Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV) -> http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/SEV.html

 

[Star Voyager]

Surely there would be a more optimal shape for a vehicle that is most definitely, a spacecraft...

This seemed to work well back in the day.