| Issue 12 | Volume 142 | Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | theavion.com |
The Next Step in Manned Spaceflight
Orion to Launch Aboard Delta IV Heavy in First Test Flight Richard Weakley Advertising Manager NASA’s Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 4 will be NASA’s most ambitious test flight since Ares 1-X in 2009. EFT-1 will test Orion, America’s next generation spacecraft that will take our astronauts beyond low Earth Orbit for grand expeditions into space. Orion will launch atop a Delta IV Heavy from the storied Space Launch Complex (SLC) 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Before SLC 37B was transformed to begin launching Delta IV rockets in
2003, the launch complex served as the launch site for the Saturn IB. The Saturn IB was the vehicle that launched the Apollo capsules on their first test flights. Just like the Apollo capsule launched from SLC 37B atop a Saturn IB during its flight testing phase before moving to the Saturn V at Launch Complex 39, the Orion spacecraft will launch from SLC 37B on a test flight before moving to the Space Launch System at LC 39. The launch window for EFT-1 begins on Dec. 4 at 7:05 a.m. EST and extends until 9:44 a.m. EST. This windows opens four minutes after sunrise for a spectacu-
lar launch silhouetted by the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. The flight test will last four hours and 23 minutes, encircling the Earth twice. The Orion spacecraft will reach an altitude 3,600 miles and re-enter the atmosphere at 20,000 miles per hour at maximum temperatures of 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The 78,010 lb weight of the Orion spacecraft and all associated equipment required the use of America’s most powerful launch vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy. This flight test will evaluate the Orion Crew Module, Service Module, Launch Abort System and Orion-to-Stage Adapter. Illustrations Courtesy: NASA & United Launch Alliance
An Interview with the Editor
Reflecting on The Avion’s Shutdown Trey Henderson Editor-in-Chief As many of you may have heard, The Avion was temporarily suspended from operation eariler this semester. Though the cease operations lasted a mere 23 hours, the impact on the campus, the SGA, and The Avion staff was noted. In the wake of the shutdown, it gave us a great
incentive and opportunity to review the policies and proceedures we have in place to ensure that we continue providing you with the best news on campus, in the industry, and around the world in the best manner possible. Resuming operations, we are instituting new and more strict policies to ensure more effective and better documented internal operations and training.
Michael Nisip Managing Editor After the events of the shutdown, I had the opportunity sit down and talk with Trey to learn more about him and The Avion. How did you get involved with SGA? I got involved in the SGA my very first semester at Embry-Riddle through what was then TFO, or
Task Force One, and what has now been restructured into FYI, First Year Initiative. When I got started, all I knew was that I wanted to be involved with SGA and the University’s newspaper, but I had no idea they were connected. For two years, I was the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for my high school’s yearbook, where I learned my love of print publication. After my first semes-
ter here at Embry-Riddle I proved my worth with Peter Tan, the EIC at the time, and he appointed me as Photo Editor. In just one semester, my goal of involvement with the SGA and the newspaper was achieved with my appointment as an executive board member of The Avion and an SGA official. What is the mission of The Avion?
The mission of The Avion is to provide a voice to the student body. It allows the students a way to speak openly and freely about student life on campus, events happening in the aerospace industry and news happening here in the Daytona Beach area and around the world. The Avion gives its members an outlet for their creative juices, if you Continued on A03 >>