2006-09-01 | TECHNOLOGIES
NASA Selects Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Prime Contractor
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin as the prime contractor to design, develop and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers. Orion will be capable of transporting four crewmembers for lunar missions and later supporting crew transfers for Mars missions. Orion could also carry up to six crew members to and from the International Space Station.
NASA's new initiative to send humans back to the Moon will provide a number of opportunities for performing research important to astrobiology. Simply by travelling in space, astronauts can tell us a great deal about the potential future for life beyond our planet. Researchers on the surface of the Moon can help answer questions about the history and evolution of the Moon itself, which can in turn help us understand the history and evolution of our own planet.
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