NASA has announced that the so called Orion project will be handed to aeronautics giant Lockheed Martin for a whopping 3.5 - 8.1 billion dollars. The Orion looks very much like the famous Apollo capsule and Service Module but it’s bigger and better with space for six astronauts - and it’ll be reusable. NASA’s planning to use the Orion to ship the crew back and forth from the ISS and later ship astronauts to the moon and even beyond (although I can’t think of anything more horrible than cramming six guys into a cone measuring 5.5 meters (16.5 feet) and sending them on an at least 6 month long transfer to mars!).
It’s interesting that NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin as manufacturer, considering they totally destroyed the …