User:MadeYourReadThis/Orion-Apollo timeline comparison
| Purpose | Apollo Program | Constellation Program | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call Sign | Location | Date | Result | Call Sign | Location | Date | Result | |
| Engineering review of selected design | 1960-1965 | 2006–2007 | ||||||
| unmanned pad abort testing | PA-1 | White Sands Missile Range | November 7, 1963 | success though the spacecraft stability was less than predicted | PA-1 | March 2010 | White Sands Missile Range | TBD |
| PA-2 | White Sands Missile Range | June 29, 1965 | highly successful | PA-2 | Spring 2010 | White Sands Missile Range | TBD | |
| ascent abort test (transonic) | AA-1 [1] | June 13, 2008 | Promontory, Utah | Success[2] | ||||
- Pad Abort Test-2 was conducted on June 29, 1965.
NASA hopes to follow this schedule in development of the Orion:
- 2006–2007 — Engineering review of selected design
- 2009 (TBD) — PA-1 (Pad Abort-1) unmanned pad abort test.[3]
- 2009 (Sep) — AA-1 (Ascent Abort-1) unmanned ascent abort test (transonic)
- 2010 (Spring) — PA-2 unmanned pad abort test
- 2010 (August) — AA-2 unmanned ascent abort test (Max Q)
- 2011 (February) — AA-3 unmanned ascent abort test (low-altitude tumble test)
- 2012 (September) — Ares I-Y unmanned ascent abort test (high altitude)
- 2012 — First unmanned flight of Orion in Earth orbit.[4]
- 2014 (September) — First manned flight of Orion in Earth orbit.
- 2015–2018 — First unmanned flight of Altair.
- 2016–2018 First manned flight of Altair.
- 2019 First manned lunar landing with Orion/Altair system.
- 2020 Review of Mars missions
- 2031 The Mission to Mars has tentative dates
- ^ "Orion Ascent Abort Test animation". NASA. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ^ "NASA conducts first abort test for Orion". UPI. June 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
finalwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Malik, Tariq (2006-09-06). "Rocket Tests Planned for NASA's Next Spaceship". space.com. Retrieved 2007-03-03.