NASA exploring various Orion heat shield schemes
NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) is concentrating some of its technology development funding on near-term items needed to enable the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle's 5-meter diameter ablative heat shield to withstand re-entry at lunar-return velocities. Boeing is developing a...
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