NASA Prepares To Test Orion Capsule Mockup At Sea

Early next month NASA will begin conducting seaworthiness tests of a full-size mockup of the Orion capsule in the Atlantic Ocean to give engineers a feel for how difficult it will be to recover the spacecraft, as well as what kind of conditions the crew can expect. The Post-landing Orion Recovery...

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