NASA ready to test Mars spaceship

[Kevin Lancaster]

NASA ready to test Mars spaceship

The launch of the Orion space capsule will mark the beginning of a new era in space exploration similar to the first Apollo launch and the first launch of the space shuttle

 

[Ockie]

meh. Call me when we launch this.

 

[Creag]

NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after its first, two-orbit test flight.

Orion lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral about 4 hours and 24 minutes earlier -- the first test flight for a program that NASA hopes eventually will get astronauts to asteroids and Mars.

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