Jones chronicles the work underway to get ready for the Orion mission. At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lockheed Martin has begun assembling an Orion crew vehicle for an ambitious but unmanned flight beyond the moon in late 2018. The NASA team faces challenging development and test milestones to execute Exploration Mission-1 which will be a far more difficult test flight than 2014's five-hour-long Exploration Flight Test-1. EM-1 will last up to three weeks to check out Orion's most critical systems in a deep-space environment. This will be the first human-capable spacecraft to reach lunar orbit since 1972, and will journey farther from Earth than any Apollo crew.


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    Title :

    Building Orion


    Contributors:
    Tom Jones (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    Local classification TIB:    770/7040
    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 55.88



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