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Showing posts with label Orion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orion. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Orion: multipurpose spacecraft system

Orion - a multi-purpose reusable manned spacecraft currently is in the development stage. The first test flight is scheduled for September 2014. This ship, in addition to delivery of cargo and astronauts to the ISS, is also intended to fly beyond the near-Earth space: the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond. Orion will be the first such device since the Apollo missions.

Monday, June 11, 2012

What is the Milky Way?


Specification we could well see the Milky Way from external fettle, we would see the center bulky, bright yellow, shaped like a rugby ball, and a thin disk of blue revolving approximately. The Milky Way is a barred spiral, like a pinwheel. It is believed that the center is a black hole, which scientists call Sagittarius A. The center is not rounding, but rather elongated. Near him are the oldest stars, red and yellow.
 Instinctive hub four arms: Arm Peruses, Orion Arm, Arm Cross Arm Sagittarius and Centaurs. Form a slowly rotating disk in a spiral. In the arms are the youngest stars, White and Blue. There are also many nebulae where new stars form. The Sagittarius Arm is the brightest of all.