Showing posts with label ORION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ORION. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2014

ORION- NASA IS BACK IN SPACE BUSINESS


Missed the launch of ‪#‎Orion‬? Want to see it again? Watch it here: http://bit.ly/1wDOT2c [video
Beautiful launch for #Orion! We have taken the first step on the journey to Mars.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched successfully atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Dec. 5 at 7:05 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orion’s Exploration Flight Test-1, is the first flight test for NASA’s new deep space capsule and is a critical step on NASA's journey to Mars. The 4.5 hour flight is scheduled to conclude with the splashdown of Orion in the Pacific Ocean
 

Saturday, June 7, 2014

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is getting ready to launch human in asteroid or Mars.

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Engineers at NASA and Lockheed Martin have completed installing the largest heat shield ever constructed for the federal space agency’s Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled to be launched in December.
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have developed a new adapter to connect the Orion to the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, which will launch the spacecraft on its test flight in December.
“In the future, Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System,” NASA said, on its website. “More powerful than any rocket ever built, SLS will be capable of sending humans to deep space destinations such as an asteroid and eventually Mars.”
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