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The Orion spacecraft which will have its first test flight around the moon in September of this year.
The uncrewed EFT-1 flight will take Orion to an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above the Earth’s surface, more than 15 times farther than the International Space Station’s orbital position. By flying Orion out to those distances, NASA will
be able to see how Orion performs in and returns from deep space journeys.
wildespace
reply to post by JadeStar
Wow, bravo JadeStar! I love your reply and I love your enthusiasm.
The only false hope here may be the hope that the governments of the world stop spending billions on weapons and "defence", and look beyond the political and religious borders, out into space. We'd be setting up Moon bases and visiting Mars by now. Not NASA's fault, the politicians' fault.
One correction, though:
The Orion spacecraft which will have its first test flight around the moon in September of this year.
The two-orbit flight will be around the Earth, with the second orbit taking the capsule much further away than usual to simulate the return from the Moon and high-velocity reentry into the atmosphere.
The uncrewed EFT-1 flight will take Orion to an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above the Earth’s surface, more than 15 times farther than the International Space Station’s orbital position. By flying Orion out to those distances, NASA will
be able to see how Orion performs in and returns from deep space journeys.
www.nasa.gov...edit on 17-1-2014 by wildespace because: (no reason given)