Wednesday, January 4, 2017

NASA's Orion Spacecraft: From Metal to Masterpiece

New manned missions..

Welding on Orion's crew module.

From the beginning of assembly work on the Orion crew module at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to testing a range of spacecraft systems, engineers made headway in 2016 in advance of the spacecraft's 2018 mission beyond the moon, NASA reported.

For an excellent video on the project and its progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCvSPTJyHQ

Assembly of the Orion spacecraft.

Orion takes shape.

Moving Orion into position for launch.

Orion's lift-of on a successful test flight.

Photos: Pinterest.

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