Orion Spacecraft

Orion is a new spacecraft design presently under progress by the “United States space agency” (NASA). Each Orion spacecraft will carry a team of 4 to 6 astronauts. Orion Spacecraft looks like the Apollo spaceship (it was first spaceship that took humans to the moon) from the outside. These both spacecraft are rounded “cone-shaped capsules” in difference to the winged space shuttle. But the similarities are only skin-deep to some extent.

According to Jim (A NASA engineer working on Orion Spacecraft), it seem like Apollo but in fact it is an art of engineering and they are nearer to shuttle. The agency has tapped to replace aging space shuttle fleet of Orion spacecraft. So the reality is that they have strained on several different sources for motivation. The major dissimilarity between the Apollo Command Module and Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle is electronics inside them.

Geffre told to SPACE.com that the computing power of latest electronics just dwarfs what they had accessible and it also permits them to perform a lot more and make more mechanization in spacecraft. They can achieve more performance with less space and less power that permits them to build in redundancy that Apollo did not have as described by him.

NASA has planned to retire its 3 space shuttles in 2010 and then started its 1st operational Orion flights no earlier than 2015.

Here is the video what NASA hope will happen . . .