NASA is currently working its way through all the tests required to certify the Orion spacecraft for flight. The Orion spacecraft will be used as the space vehicle to ferry astronauts and cargo to the ...
On Tuesday, April 6 at 1:45 p.m. EDT, engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The huge ...
NASA will be showing live footage of its Orion spacecraft water drop test on Tuesday afternoon. At 1:45 p.m. EDT, the space agency will hold a 7-ton test version of the Orion capsule over a huge pool ...