NASAの新宇宙船「オライオン」初号機が完成 [383744743]

Orion’s First Crew Module Complete

NASA’s first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility
at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The crew and service module will be transferred together on Wednesday to another facility for fueling, before moving again for the installation
of the launch abort system.
At that point, the spacecraft will be complete and ready to stack on top of the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space on its first flight
in December.
For that flight, Exploration Flight Test-1, Orion will travel 3,600 miles above the Earth ? farther than any spacecraft built to carry people has traveled
in more than 40 years ? and return home at speeds of 20,000 miles per hour, while enduring temperatures near 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Image Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak

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