Engineers at NASA’s Langley (Va.) Research Center are scheduled to deliver a full-scale test article of the Composite Crew Module (CCM), designed and sized for the agency’s Orion Crew Exploration ...

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: AT) has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design ...

IUKA — Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has delivered a technological first to NASA — a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule ...

There are plenty of use-case examples of composite materials in aircraft and cars, and now the space program is getting in the action. NASA’s Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) at Langley Research ...

NASA reported on April 7 that it has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA is completing fabrication of the first Lockheed Martin Orion crew exploration capsule due to be tested in space, while at the same time starting key vacuum tests on the Alliant ...