Anomalocaris Posted August 27, 2015 #1 Share Posted August 27, 2015 The December test flight of the Orion capsule was widely hailed as a huge success. It was the first time that Nasa had launched spaceship a designed to carry astronauts far beyond Earth in nearly half a century. During that test parachutes successfully slowed the Orion capsule as it fell to Earth – but what would happen if one of the parachutes hadn't worked? Nasa attempted to find out in today's test flight of an Orion mock-up, which touched down in the Arizona desert after engineers intentionally failed two different parachutes. Nasa tests Orion capsule that will take man to Mars: Craft successfully gets through parachute failure (but it lands upside down) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomalocaris Posted September 9, 2015 Author #2 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Thread update... Nasa to send Orion capsule around dark side of the moon on biggest rocket in history in key test for Mars mission Nasa has begun building the latest version of its Orion spaceship that will one day take man to Mars - and says it plans to blast it around the moon. On Saturday, engineers at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans welded together the first two segments of the Orion crew module. It will fly atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the first test of the biggest rocket ever built, on a mission beyond the far side of the moon. Read more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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