Posted on 04/26/2017 5:34:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A government audit released on Wednesday found that a next-generation flight suit known as the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) won’t be delivered until March 2021, just five months before NASA’s internal target launch date for the first crewed test flight of SLS and Orion.
The OCSS is one of three spacesuits NASA has worked on to replace shuttle-era equipment still in use aboard the International Space Station. The Inspector General’s audit found that despite spending nearly $200 million over the past 10 years, NASA is at risk of running out of time to test any of the new spacesuits aboard the station before its planned retirement in 2024.
At the behest of the White House, in February NASA undertook a study to consider adding crew to an earlier mission, known as Exploration Mission-1 or EM-1, which is currently an unmanned mission around the moon scheduled to launch at the end of 2018.
NASA has not yet revealed whether adding crew to the mission is feasible, but all astronauts flying on Orion will be required to wear an OCSS. The spacesuit, which is to be worn during launch and landing, is designed to protect astronauts from fire, smoke, and toxic chemicals. It would also provide a redundant pressurized atmosphere in case of a problem with the capsule.
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In addition to OCSS, NASA has worked on two pressurized spacesuits that astronauts can wear during spacewalks, referred to as extravehicular activity (EVA) in NASA parlance. The first is the Constellation Space Suit System, which originally was developed as part of the Bush-era, moon-bound Constellation exploration program that was canceled in 2010.
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Indeed, there was not.
That moon landing equipment was the most successful space equipment ever designed, ever even conceived. Nobody died, no scratches, no trouble whatsoever, and yet it all just got forgotten as if it never did anything...
Go figure.
Post like that just make this site look silly.
What of breathing the micro-particle moon dust contaminant? If it passed through the lungs into the blood, the heart’s arteries received a dosing. Counts of the variant blood white cell were found to jump upward for anyone exposed to Lunar dust, per NASA’s space surgeon in charge of medical testing.
” yet it all just got forgotten as if it never did anything...”
Like much of the Apollo data and original images, knowledge gained was all thrown away by officious NASA managers to make room for stuff that was really important, like bonuses for running a neat and clean shop ...
We are at least 5 years from recreating Apollo! Way to go, USA! USA! USA!
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