NASA has completed the preliminary design review of its next crew exploration vehicle -- the Orion spacecraft -- giving it a passing grade for possible manufacturing to proceed. The review assessed the overall system is safe and reliable for flight and meets all NASA mission requirements to support three types of missions -- flights to the International Space Station, week-long missions to the moon and missions to the moon for up to 210 days. More from NASA. More from SpaceRef.com.The space agency has tentatively scheduled Saturday, October 31, 2009 as the date to test the Ares-1 booster rocket in flight from the Kennedy Space Center. Whether or not it will fly is a matter of American space policy debate however.
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