[FPSPACE] Could Orion Lite save the day?

[LARRY KLAES]

Company pitches 'lite' spaceship to NASA
 
Stripped down version of NASA's future spaceship could be ready 2013
 

By Amy Klamper 
updated 1:13 p.m. ET, Fri., Aug 14, 2009

 
 
A stripped down version of NASA's future spaceship designed by a Nevada-based company could be ready as soon as 2013, according to the Bigelow Aerospace, the private company proposing to build it. 
 
A Bigelow official flew to Denver in July to privately brief a White House-charted panel on the suggested design based on the planned Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which will carry passengers to and from low Earth orbit.
 
Such a system is crucial to Bigelow's plans for deploying Sundancer, an inflatable space station module the North Las Vegas, Nev.-based firm is building based on NASA's Transhab design. In search of the means to transport paying passengers to Sundancer, Bigelow has spent the past two years working with Denver-based United Launch Alliance to study a human-rated version of the Atlas 5 rocket. 
 

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32418057/ns/technology_and_science-space/

 

 

 
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