Lockheed Martin shows test spaceship, trial site
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AP - Lockheed Martin Corp. On Monday showed off a test version of the Orion spacecraft, which was initially meant to return humans to the moon but may wind up being an escape vehicle for the International Space Station or taking astronauts beyond Earth orbit. Source: Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Today's launch attempt for the first test flight of NASA's new Orion spacecraft has been scrubbed due to problems with valves on the rocket that will boost Orion to orbit. NASA will try again to launch at 7:05 a.m. ET on Friday.
Orion looks like a throwback to the Apollo era, but it is roomier and designed to go far beyond the moon: to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. When it becomes fully operational, the spaceship will be able to carry four people on a 21-day mission into deep space or six astronauts for shorter missions. Orion is expected to take up its first crew in 2021. Ref. CNN
NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after its first, two-orbit test flight.
Orion lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral about 4 hours and 24 minutes earlier -- the first test flight for a program that NASA hopes eventually will get astronauts to asteroids and Mars. Ref. CNN