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Pat Hynes

The Orion Space Capsule

December 2, 2014

America’s first human space program began in 1959 with the Mercury Program. The Mercury Program’s 3rd mission carried Alan Shepard in the Freedom 7 space capsule one hundred and sixteen miles to space at a speed of fifty one hundred and eighty miles per hour, mission duration was fifteen minutes. That flight took place on […]

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A space asset in New Mexico, Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)

July 11, 2011

One of the space assets we have in New Mexico we don’t know much about is the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. On June 29th at 11pm, they launched ORS-1 satellite on a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), part of the NASA Wallops Island […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Kirtland Air Force Base, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Minotaur 1 rocket, NASA Wallops Island facility, Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), ORS-1 satellite

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