Humanity’s first effort to send humans into deep space and to other planets in our solar system begins in just two weeks. The launch window for NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, opens Dec. 4. While the world has been fixed on the Mars Rover and, more recently, a successful effort to land a robot on a […]
The barrel for the engine section of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, is taken off the Vertical Weld Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The barrel is flight hardware to be used on the first uncrewed test flight of the 70-metric-ton configuration of the rocket. The engine section, made up […]
The Orion spacecraft moved from the Launch Abort Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 11 to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After arriving at the pad Nov. 12, Orion was lifted for stacking on the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket in preparation for its flight […]
By Linda Herridge NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center NASA’s Orion spacecraft moved Nov. 11 from the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and arrived at Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on Nov. 12 in preparation for its upcoming flight test. The assembled Orion […]
The first flight version of NASA’s Orion space vehicle is fully assembled and will be moved to its launch pad in Florida in coming weeks for an unmanned test launch Dec. 4.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is well on its way to making this sort of space exploration beyond the Moon a reality. It is NASA’s first spacecraft designed to carry humans on missions of long duration in deep space exploration.