Forum attracts clean energy start-ups

Thirty clean energy companies will present their business cases to a panel of investors and industry experts Nov. 3-4 in Denver, Colorado, as the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) hosts its annual Industry Growth Forum.

NASA engineers begin welding Orion spacecraft

The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans announces that engineers have welded together the first two segments of the Orion crew module that will fly atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on a mission beyond the far side of the moon.