NASA’s Orion spacecraft is shown in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 5, 2014 off the coast of Baja, Mexico after a splashdown that followed a 4.5 hour test-flight roughly 3,600 miles from Earth. A team consisting of NASA, Navy, and the Orion contractor Lockheed Martin,...
Artist rendering of NASA’s Orion spacecraft reentering Earth’s atmosphere during its first test flight slated for Dec. 4, 2014. Credit: NASA. This Thursday (Dec. 4, 2014) NASA’s state-of-the-art Orion spacecraft will undergo its first test flight...
Images: NASA NASA is offering the public a rare opportunity to ‘travel’ skyward aboard the Orion spacecraft! Click on the link below to fill out a submission form to have your name carried into outer space during its first test flight slated for December...
Above: The first completed Orion spacecraft mounted atop its service module, pictured at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak. The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for deep-space missions, and will carry...