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Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin that is paired with a European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space.
Orion MPCV homepage (NASA) Archived 27 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine; EFT-1 Fact sheet (NASA) EFT-1 Press kit (NASA) Animation of the EFT-1 mission (NASA) Video of the launch of EFT-1 – 5 December 2014 (NASA) Video of the landing of the EFT-1 Orion – 5 December 2014 (NASA/U.S. Navy)
Artist's rendition of the docking of Orion to the ISS Ares I-X launches from LC-39B, 15:30 UTC, October 28, 2009.. The Constellation Program was NASA's planned future human spaceflight program between 2005 and 2009, which aimed to develop a new crewed spacecraft and a pair of launchers (Ares I and Ares V) to continue servicing the International Space Station and return to the Moon.
Nasa’s Orion spacecraft is making its way back to Earth after a trip around the moon that lasted 25 days. The uncrewed capsule, which is designed to carry astronauts, is set to splash down in ...
Orion's performance so far has been "outstanding," program manager Howard Hu told reporters last week. It launched on November 15th as part of the Artemis 1 mission atop NASA's mighty Space Launch ...
The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA.As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory.
The Artemis program has made noteworthy progress, including Orion's 2022 uncrewed launch atop NASA's giant Space Launch System (SLS), but also has experienced various delays and rising costs. The ...
Artemis I was outlined by NASA as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) in 2012, at which point it was set to launch in 2017 [28] [note 2] as the first planned flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the second uncrewed test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.