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RMS Orion was an ocean liner launched by the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from the water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers. A 23,371 ton passenger ship, the Orion was built to carry 486 first class, 653 tourist class passengers and 466 crew from Europe through the Pacific to Australia.
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 .
MS Nordic Orion, an Arctic ice-strengthened cargo ship; MV Orion (also known as MS Orion, MY Orion), a National Geographic exploration ship; MV Orion, a Greek ro-ro freight ferry, previously Pentland Ferries' Orcadia and Caledonian MacBrayne's Saturn; Orion, a heavy lift vessel (HLV) operated by DEME Offshore, a subsidiary of the DEME Group. [1]
OEC now plans to expand beyond its one-ship operation in the Oceania region through the building of new ships and/or other acquisitions. On the evening of 20 January 2013, the ship rescued a round-the-world yachtsman, Alain Delord, from his liferaft located 487 nautical miles SSW of Hobart (S49.47.93 E144.20.47) in the Southern Ocean .
Viking Orion is a cruise ship operated by Viking Ocean Cruises. The ship was built by Fincantieri at its yard in Ancona, Italy. It was delivered to Viking Cruises on June 7, 2018. [1] The ship was christened by NASA astronaut Anna Fisher in a ceremony at Livorno, Italy. [2]
NASA artist rendering, from 1999, of the Project Orion pulsed nuclear fission spacecraft. Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, [1] and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft.
A Portuguese-flagged container ship came under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea, corresponding with a claim by Yemen's Houthi rebels that they assaulted the ship there ...
Orion, named after the mythological hunter, Orion, [9] was the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy (RN). [10] The ship was laid down at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth on 29 November 1909. She was launched on 20 August 1910, [11] and was commissioned on 2 January 1912. [12]