NASA Previews Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight Test
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During a NASA Television media briefing from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials discussed the completed construction of the new Orion spacecraft and details of its first test flight, scheduled for Dec. 4. During the 4.5‑hour flight, called Exploration Flight Test‑1, Orion will travel farther than any crewed spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years, before returning to Earth at speeds near 20,000 mph and generating temperatures up to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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NASA Previews Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight Test
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So when will they be towing it into San Diego?
To slow. This way of exploring the universe has no future n u know that. Evolution way wont give us even a chance to leave our solar system. Doesn’t matter how far we go if we go wrong way.
Go nasa!
Can not wait to see the 1st flight test of Orion, NASA & the companies do work on finishing Orion so fast,
I was surprised to hear that the 1st flight test is already in the end of this year.
I think NASA is doing great at moment also when there is much too less support of the US government,
who call out to reach for mars, but do not give enough budget to reach this goal — so everything is sitting on the shoulders of NASA and the companies which help to make these dreams become true.
Also I like to see that NASA is building a real manned spacecraft on the design of modules what is really needed for deep space missions and the future.
Which I could see the launch near the pad, such a giant rocket powered by 3 boosters,
will shock all the birds in the sky.
Good Luck to everyone, let´s make the test flights a success, for all mankind and our future.
And thanks that ESA is involved on Orion, hope we will get a manned spacecraft too, soon.
P.S. I am disappointed of so many comments here, not because of crit NASA, it is because of the scary lack of knowledge people are creating their point of view on.
NASA е Велика сила. Аз Вярвам, че е така!
Orion = modernised version of Apollo. Not much fundamentally new.
NASA’s glory days started with Project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and ended with the final flight of the beautiful shuttle.
0:32 Read his lips!
16:23 “Uhh.”
GO #OrionEFT‑1
everything on this flight has to work because on the next flight Orion will have a 90 to 1 chance of coming back because NASA is going to blow up a Delta on purpose. LAT‑1 the next flight will have Orion on a fully fueled Delta Rocket except instead of taking this one into space it will go up to 30 miles over the ocean and they will blow it up. Orion has to fire the Escape Tower and come back alive so this flight will test the Escape Tower because on the next flight Orion will have to use it to escape from an exploding rocket.
for this flight all Apollo positions will be revived except two Capcom,TELMU,and Surgeon since this is an unmanned flight those positions are not needed.
only one milestone left Attach Orion to the Rocket the Service Module will be attached to the Second Stage with the Orion Adapter and it will stay with Orion until Stage 2 Jettison and Service Module Start which is the burn before Service Module Separation and Orion Retrofire which is the final burn before Orion Reentry and Splashdown.
Yes, truly — the “FIRST GO” excitement defintitely begin to build up — Come on NASA, it’ll soon be time to show your skills and true real capacity! GO for it!!
— Tobbe in Sweden -
Summary: It has been 40 years since mankind flew as far as this Dec. 4 “Exploration Flight Test‑1,” will go. These events cannot be tested on the ground. After jettisoning the launch service modules, and after flight to its first orbit, the module, which will be manned next year, goes into high earth orbit (500 Nautical miles up). On return, 20% of the skin of the 1000lb. heat shield will burn up and will be rebuilt for the actual, manned flight to Mars. Radiation for this unmanned flight — which will be 15X as high as the space station’s orbit and into the Van Allen radiation belt — will be severe, testing electronics. The crew-holding capsule is being manufactured in Southern California by Lockheed Martin. The whole launch-to-recovery operation, Dec. 4, will be a “risk-reduction phase.” Splash down is planned for 600 mi. off San Diego, using our Navy’s ship, “US Anchorage.” There are at least two other ways possible to retrieve mankind’s future little first-home on Mars. They won’t lose it! (Assoc.Press Q: It cost $370 million.)
Russians will say they invented it !!
Please be honest with any knowledge of Japan toxic waste and Saturn n the possible black hole
I’m serious if the government does not restore funding to nasa we all will die I believe the moon needs a permanent station n we need to launch to planets that maybe habitual
Unless Orion will assist in eminent prevention of mass extinction of earth this will be the biggest waste of tax payer dollars. Thanks NASA! At least let me entertain a reason to fund you. lol
Who ells think We Should Look Into Colonizing Space PLZ HIT LIKE TO VOTE YES DISLIKE FOR NO.
When asked about radiation shielding NASA did not answer. It doesn’t sound like NASA is capable of ever going to Mars. It also sounds like NASA is setup to use lack of funding to explain why the Mars mission never occurs.