A cash assistance program providing funds to indigent residents of Norfolk for assistance with burials and cremations. Based on the qualifications of the deceased, a family member, friend or representative of a deceased citizen may receive a vendor payment paid directly to participating Funeral Homes to assist with final burial expenses. Tue, Apr.
NASA: Orion deep space exploration ship faces delays. An artist's concept of NASA's Orion deep space exploration vehicle. Based on a more realistic funding and test schedule, NASA now believes the first piloted flight of an Orion capsule likely will slip from August 2021 to as late as April 2023.
Getting people safely to and from destinations in deep space poses challenges that the engineers of NASA's last crewed spaceship, the now-retired space shuttle, never had to consider. (No space shuttle ever traveled beyond Earth orbit.).or example, if a problem develops aboard a spaceship in LEO, astronauts can theoretically be on the ground in less than an hour. But it would take days for a vehicle out by the moon or beyond to get home, said NASA Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer.