First Pair Of NASA Astronauts on the (Supposed) International Space Station (ISS) – Low Earth Orbit
A rocket called SLS, which is a heavy lift rocket. It’s something that is much bigger than what we have today. It will be able to launch the Orion capsule with humans on board, as well as landers or other components to destinations beyond Earth orbit.
Right now, we only can fly in Earth orbit. That’s the farthest that we can go. This new system that we’re building is going to allow us to go beyond and hopefully take humans into the solar system to explore.
So the moon, Mars, asteroids, there’s a lot of destinations that we could go to, and we’re building these building block components in order to allow us to do that eventually.
Second Pair Of NASA Astronauts on the (Supposed) International Space Station (ISS) – Low Earth Orbit
The kinds of technologies that we’re testing out on Space Station are definitely helping us with our goals of going beyond low Earth orbit. So we have a really robust exploration program at NASA.
Obama Speech – Low Earth Orbit
Unlike the previous program, we are setting a course with specific and achievable milestones. In the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low Earth orbit.
Bill Nye the Science Guy – Low Earth Orbit
One thing I really want your generation to embrace is that the Earth is a closed system. We cannot leave the Earth. There’s no place to go.
