The newly-proposed Exploration Test Flight, or EFT-1, of NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft planned for an orbital flight in 2014 is shown in this animation produced at the Johnson Space Center.
@illustriouschin Actually, John & Jane Q. Public *think* they ARE paying plenty for the space program, that's why no one complains when they cut some "small" amount from the budget. Many people think we spend 15-20% of the national budget on the space program. We actually spend LESS than 1% on NASA as a whole (including all of education, science, R&D, and exploration).
TimBailey
I volunteer for that trip as a stowaway...
hackneysaregreat
this reminds me of constellation program...
im sad about it having to be cancelled
but i hope this one is better :D
to the moon and beyond!
coisinhodasilva
I hope this one doesn't get shut down too. To be human is to explore. Why do they keep on stifling our needed progress?
DiggerjohnKansas
gravitational perturbations and aerodynamic drag maybe depending on the altitude of perigee will cause the elliptical orbit to degrade until eventually the perigee is so low that it will never again rise and will be grabbed by mighty earths atmosphere which will destroy it
marshalcraft
0:57 was waiting for an epic laser to shoot the moon
RoboTekno
@James22255 It is vital to our future. I am a human, my family is human, I kind of want to species to keep going. Ex Astra.
DiggerjohnKansas
Back to the future. Apollo on steroids. I hope the private sector can do better than this. It's not really NASA's fault though, with the cuts to their budget mean this is the best they can afford to come up with.
geoff
@diggerjohn111 you didn't respond to my argument though... you just restate your opinion. Ever think this "exploration" that will make our species thrive, in turn will really be our demise?
James
is it just me that thinks it a bit of a waste to create craft to go into space for it to throw away most of its body like fuel tanks etc, wouldnt it be better to find a way to keep the tanks etc and to utilise them.
goygeous
@1Nekit1 I know this, I don't live in a bubble. But we need to allocate more to exploration of space, or we are going to find ourselves on the endangered species list.
DiggerjohnKansas
Wasn't this the craft that supposed to go back to the moon? And they say this is the most farthest people went in space...
...We already forgot about the moonlandings right?
Jll
@CarnivalofIllusion
It's 2011, have you seen the progression of NASA's budget for the last 10 years?
SPYKO
This animation is gorgeous. So realistic, some of it looks like footage.
My compliments to your animators and CG staff. Amazing.
MartianStories
@jaremd The service module will eventually burn up in the atmosphere.
