Astronaut Randy Bresnik Visits Orion BFS Lab
March 2, 2020: The Orion Backup Flight Software (BFS) team was visited last week by astronaut Randy Bresnik. Bresnik discussed the importance of BFS in ensuring the safety of our astronauts and the success of the Artemis program. The Backup Flight Software system is designed as an independent flight computer capable of controlling the Orion spacecraft in the event of a systemic malfunction of the 4 main flight computers. An initial build [...]
2020 Career Excellence Award
February 25, 2020: It’s unusual for events at Odyssey’s State of the Union to lead to a standing ovation and a few tears, but that’s exactly what happened at the 2020 State of the Union when Barb Ebadat was awarded [...]
NG-12 Exits the ISS
Jan 31, 2020: The Cygnus unmanned cargo vehicle has successfully completed its twelfth mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, called NG-12, was conducted for NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. Odyssey engineers supported from the [...]
Completed Tests bring Commercial Crew Closer to the Finish Line
January 27, 2020: With the first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on December 20th, 2019 and SpaceX’s In-flight Abort Test of it’s Crewed Dragon capsule two significant milestones have been passed on the road to launching American astronauts from US soil to [...]
SpX-19 Leaves the ISS
January 7th, 2020: The unmanned Dragon cargo resupply vehicle successfully completed its nineteenth mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today. Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex as SpaceX's Dragon departed ISS, starting with release [...]
New Odyssey Employees Tour NASA JSC
December 17, 2019: Several of the fresher faces at Odyssey had the opportunity to tour exciting locations at NASA Johnson Space Center this week, including Mission Control, the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, and the Saturn V rocket at Rocket Park. [...]
SpX-19 Berths at the ISS
December 8, 2019: An unmanned Dragon cargo resupply vehicle once again successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, making it the nineteenth Dragon to reach the orbiting outpost. Flying for NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services contract, SpaceX’s [...]