Posted on 03/20/2014 8:10:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The urgent need by the US Air Force to launch a pair of previously classified Space Situational Awareness satellites into Earth orbit this year on an accelerated schedule has bumped the inaugural blastoff of NASA’s highly anticipated Orion pathfinder manned capsule from September to December 2014.
It’s a simple case of US national security taking a higher priority over the launch of NASA’s long awaited unmanned Orion test flight on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission.
The EFT-1 flight is NASA’s first concrete step towards sending human crews on Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) missions since the finale of the Apollo moon landing era in December 1972.
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That's a new one.
More time for NASA to do Muslim outreach then.
And proselytize Karl Marx.
No it isn’t. If you think someone could possibly, or is actively trying to, do you harm, it pays to pay attention to your surroundings, including in space if that’s where you happen to be. This has been true for decades. This amounts to Condition Yellow at least, or possibly even Condition Orange, according to Jeff Cooper, for space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper
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