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The NESC provided support to the trapped miners in Chile by making recommendations on miner health and wellbeing and also designing the rescue capsule.
For the past three years, the NESC has been evaluating a composite crew module as an alternative to the baseline Orion design. A tiger team was formed between Orion and the NESC team recently to compare opportunities and challenges.
In February 2010, an NESC team conducted water drop tests of the full-size boilerplate Crew Module. The Module was dropped multiple times at two different hang angles, resulting in water impact sink rates of up to 25 feet per second.
Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, was successfully tested at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, July 8.
NESC team studies launch vehicle design to reduce weight and cost.
NESC leads team to assess potential crew injuries during Orion landings.