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Video: Orion flight preps

December 21, 2014 Justin Ray

This video recaps the Orion spacecraft and its Delta 4-Heavy rocket preparations for launch on the Exploration Flight Test No. 1.

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Photos: Orion capsule plucked from the Pacific

December 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

A recovery team stationed in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California secured NASA’s Orion spacecraft and winched it into the flooded well deck of a U.S. Navy transport ship after the capsule splashed down into the sea to wrap up a successful four-and-a-half hour test flight.

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NASA names crew for first human mission to the moon in more than 50 years

April 3, 2023 Stephen Clark

NASA announced Monday that former U.S. Navy fighter pilots Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, veteran space station astronaut Christina Koch, and rookie Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will crew the Artemis 2 mission to fly around the far side of the moon as soon as late next year, a test flight that could carry the foursome farther from Earth than any humans in history.

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Orion abort test post-launch briefing (members only)

July 2, 2019 Spaceflight Now

Watch NASA’s Orion inflight abort test post-launch news briefing, held at the Kennedy Space Center two hours after the test.

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  • SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites from California
    September 25, 2023
  • OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule safely lands in Utah
    September 24, 2023
  • Interview: Talking asteroid sample return
    September 24, 2023
  • As it happened: Seven-year asteroid adventure ends with sample return
    September 24, 2023
  • Another Falcon 9 hits 17-flight milestone with Starlink launch
    September 23, 2023
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