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At 7:05am Eastern time (12:05pm UK time) this morning, NASA's Orion spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This will be the first test flight for Orion, which will ultimately take NASA ...

San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) successfully completed test recovery operations of NASA’s Orion test article, Jan. 23. The Underway Recovery Test-6 (URT-6) is part ...

After a day of testing the Orion capsule high above the planet, the crew of the NASA mission became the first people to head ...

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An uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully traveled thousands of miles beyond the moon and back, demonstrating its ability to one day transport astronauts to lunar orbit — but there are a few more ...