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...
The PISCES planetary rover during a test run at one of the Center’s planetary analogue test sites on Hawaii Island. PISCES’ planetary rover overcame its first challenge on a mock-Martian/lunar surface, July 21-24, at the PISCES planetary analogue test site near...
