NASA’s Shuttles may be decommissioned by the end of 2010, but the real space race – which will include private contenders – is just heating up.
In the world of tech gadgets, we constantly look down: at laptops, smartphones – even at the just-announced iPad. Yet, for some of the most amazing technology, you have to crane your neck up toward the sky. Over the next few years, NASA and a few private spaceflight firms are planning some spectacular outer space voyages.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is perhaps the most exciting of all planned space missions. The craft, currently being tested at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, will be used for the first mission to the moon in 2020, and may be used to visit the space station as early as 2015. The 750,000-pound space vehicle is a behemoth that can withstand 1.35 times gravitational force.
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