NASA’s quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins - TopicsExpress



          

NASA’s quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins this week with a two-laps-around-Earth test flight, and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord will open its doors early tomorrow morning for a local launch party. The new Orion spacecraft is not going to Mars just yet; tomorrow’s debut will be unmanned and last just 4½ hours. But it will be the farthest a built-for-humans capsule has flown since the Apollo moon missions, shooting 3,600 miles out into space in order to gain enough momentum to re-enter the atmosphere at a scorching 20,000 mph. concordmonitor/news/nation/world/14634315-95/nasa-launching-new-orion-spacecraft-on-test-flight
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:46:47 +0000

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