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NASA Engineers Install Two of Four Solar Array Wings on Orion Spacecraft
Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. […]
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NASA’s Artemis I Rocket, Orion Spacecraft Prepare for Launch to the Moon, Receive a ‘Worm’ Welcome
NASA is headed back to the Moon as part of the Artemis program – and the agency’s “worm” logo will be along for the ride on the first integrated mission of the powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. […]
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NASA’s Orion Program Completes Key Certification Review for Future Artemis I Spacecraft Launch
NASA’s Orion Program has completed the System Acceptance Review and Design Certification Review to certify the Artemis I spacecraft is fit for flight, ready to venture from Earth to the lunar vicinity, and return home for landing and recovery. […]
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VIDEO: U.S. Navy Recovery Ship Prepared to Recover Orion, Recover Jettisoned Hardware
For Artemis missions, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will be traveling at 25,000 mph as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, which will slow it down to 325 mph. Parachutes will then bring it down to about 20 mph. […]
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WATCH: Orion to Face Simulated Rigors of Space in Last Major Test Before Artemis I
The recently completed Orion spacecraft for Artemis I will head to Ohio for the final stretch of major testing before integration with the Space Launch System rocket for launch. […]
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SPACE INVESTMENT: NASA Awards Contract for Second Mobile Launcher at Kennedy Space Center
NASA has selected Bechtel National, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, to design and build a second mobile launch platform, known as Mobile Launcher 2 or ML2, for Exploration Ground Systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
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NASA’s Super Guppy Undergoes Modifications at KSC to Transport Exploration Mission-1 Spacecraft
NASA’s Orion crew and service modules are being prepared for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But before they hitch a ride to deep space, they are being prepared for a different kind of flight. […]
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VIDEO: NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Begins Summer With Important Safety Systems Tests
Engineers working on NASA’s Orion kicked off summer with a series of important tests for some of the spacecraft’s critical safety systems. […]
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NASA: Orion Spacecraft Progress Continues With Installation of Module to Test Propulsion Systems
On Feb. 22, engineers successfully installed ESA’s European Service Module Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico that was delivered by Airbus – ESA’s prime contractor for the Service Module. […]
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VIDEO: NASA Readies For Major Orion Milestones in 2017, Set To Fly Manned Mission in 2021
From the beginning of assembly work on the Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to testing a range of the spacecraft systems, engineers made headway in 2016 in advance of the spacecraft’s 2018 mission beyond the moon […]
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VIDEO: NASA’s First Flight With Crew Will Mark Important Step on Journey to Mars
When astronauts are on their first test flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will take them farther into the solar system than humanity has ever traveled before, their mission will be to confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space. […]
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VIDEO: U.S. Navy Divers Practice Orion Water Recovery Techniques At Johnson Space Center
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practiced Orion open water recovery techniques Sept. 20-22 in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), the largest indoor pool in the U.S., at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. […]
