Image: After individual Composite Crew Module parts were fabricated and oven-cured, they were assembled for a “dry fit check” prior to final assembly and shipment to NASA’s Langley Research Center in ...

Engineers at NASA’s Langley (Va.) Research Center are scheduled to deliver a full-scale test article of the Composite Crew Module (CCM), designed and sized for the agency’s Orion Crew Exploration ...

IUKA — Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has delivered a technological first to NASA — a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule ...

ATK: Alliant Techsystems has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design that ...

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: AT) has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA is completing fabrication of the first Lockheed Martin Orion crew exploration capsule due to be tested in space, while at the same time starting key vacuum tests on the Alliant ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a further contract with Airbus for the construction of three more European Service Modules (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft for the Artemis ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has hired a new company to provide engineering support for an inflatable module on the International Space Station originally built and managed by Bigelow Aerospace. In a Jan. 18 ...

Kawai Kwok, an associate professor in Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will be the primary investigator on a project with commercial software provider AnalySwift LLC. Source ...

Modeling materials research. NASA’s US-COMP research institute is using simulation and modeling to develop composites that are three times stronger and lighter than current carbon fiber materials for ...