'We're going to do everything faster and more accurately. And it's going to make spaceflight much, much safer and less error prone.'
's Orion spacecraft. The former space shuttle Atlantis crewmember and two-time spacewalker says that, based on the work he and his laboratory are doing, Orion is nearly ready for human crews."We are now putting the finishing touches on all of the crew displays, the hand controllers, the switches and everything that the crew of Artemis 2 is going to use to control their Orion spacecraft," Love said."It's a great job. I love it.
A large part of this work is ensuring that the cockpit controls enable crews to make decisions quickly and with as much information as possible."We're going to do everything faster and more accurately." Love said."And it's going to make spaceflight much, much safer and less error prone." In the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulate conditions that astronauts in spacesuits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on its way to deep space.
A large part of this involves streamlining the controls inside Orion and making the cockpit much less cluttered, thanks to the advances in digital touchscreens that enable crews to activate pop-up windows rather than pore over checklists."The shuttle had about 1,200 switches and circuit breakers in the cockpit. And there was a time when I knew what every single one of them did when I was training to be MS-2 [Mission Specialist 2] on the shuttle," Love told Space.com.
"You'll have a screen with a representation of the system you're controlling with valves and power switches ... You can highlight the item you want to command, press a button; a little window pops up with a list of commands, you select the command you want, and send it off to the vehicle."
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