The Harvard Gazette

Jonathan McDowell

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NASA's Orion (photo 1) is considered to be the next-generation spaceship. "Apollo was: 'Let’s get someone to the moon and back alive.' Orion is: 'Let’s develop the infrastructure and the capability to gad about the solar system and have a spacecraft that can operate for months, have a spacecraft that can have a bigger safety margin than Apollo did.'" said Jonathan McDowell (photo 2), a scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Eyes on Orion

Astrophysicist looks beyond test flight to asteroids and Mars

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DateDecember 9, 2014June 13, 2018

When worlds collide

Chandra X-ray Observatory observes titanic merger

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DateApril 18, 2002