Orion Monthly Accomplishments for September 2015

Oct 16, 2015

NASA’s monthly newsletter for September on the development of the Orion spacecraft is here! In this issue:

–Lockheed Martin engineers have begun welding together the Exploration Mission-1 Crew Module.

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2015 photo made available by NASA, Lockheed Martin engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La., perform the first weld on the Orion spacecraft pressure vessel for Exploration Mission-1. This is the third pressure Orion pressure vessel built. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, top NASA officials said there isn't much confidence in the original 2021 launch date. That's because of the space agency's history of running into unexpected problems in new programs, like Orion. Managers set 2023 as the new official launch date, although they said they haven’t given up yet on 2021. (Radislav Sinyak/NASA via AP)

–Propulsion tanks for the test article of Orion’s European Service Module were delivered to the U.S. by Airbus Defense and Space.

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–U.S. Representative John Culberson gets a virtual reality tour of Orion by Lockheed Martin.

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And much more! Check out the newsletter here.