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Lockheed Martin's Orion project team recently assembled a full-scale low fidelity Orion crew exploration vehicle module aft bay, subsystems mock-up in Johnson Space Center's space vehicle mockup facility, also known as building nine

I don't know how I missed this and doing lots of background research for this week's NASA/AIAA 3rd space exploration conference I only found one reference to it in Space Daily but on 30 January ILC Dover put out this statement about a NASA study for an Orion CEV airbag/floatation system
With one day to go before the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's launch here is my pick of the newsy stuff from around the web...
As usual Hobbyspace.com has a plethora of links to various this, that and bits and bobs
NASASpaceflight.com has interesting details about Rocketplane Kistler and some alleged detail about changes to NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle
Chair Force Engineer considers this detail and I agree with some of what Chair Force says but take issue with other claims by Nasaspaceflight - more on that in a later post
ATK has put out a press release about a parachute test for Orion
Space.com is reporting on MIT developing a tether for astronauts to walk on asteroid
Spacedev has won a DARPA solar thermal propulsion contract
Find a photo report by Energia about preparations for the next manned Soyuz launch here.
Catch them while they're in your orbital plane
The LA Times has got an author and blogger Rand Simberg debating NASA for what its worth
If you have any bright ideas NASA would like to hear them about its future space suits
Spaceref.com is reporting that NASA has placed an order for its Orion launch abort system test launch pad
Aviation Week and Space Technology is reporting that China plans to have a lunar sample return mission. What? You mean like this one Flight has exclusive video of?
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