Orion’s first flight on This Week @NASA — December 8, 2014

Orion’s first flight on This Week @NASA — Decem­ber 8, 2014



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The suc­cess­ful first flight test of NASA’s Ori­on space­craft on Dec. 5 not only was a his­toric moment for the agency – but also was a crit­i­cal step on NASA’s Jour­ney to Mars. Ori­on rode to space from Cape Canaver­al Air Force Sta­tion on a Delta IV heavy rock­et with no crew, but loaded with about 1,200 sen­sors. The flight test basi­cal­ly was a com­pi­la­tion of the riski­est events that will hap­pen when astro­nauts fly on Ori­on on deep space mis­sions. Also, Jour­ney to Mars brief­ing, 1st SLS flight bar­rel and Com­mer­cial crew milestone.



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