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Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA Stars at 2013 Presidential Inaugural Parade with Orion and Curiosity – Photos and Video

January 22, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Image caption: Orion deep space crew capsule float passes in front of the White House at the Presidential Inaugural parade on Jan 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. Credit: NASA NASA’s new Orion deep space crew capsule and sensational Curiosity Mars rover [...]

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Orion Crew Capsule Targeted for 2014 Leap to High Orbit

March 21, 2012

NASA is on course to make the highest leap in human spaceflight in nearly 4 decades when an unmanned Orion crew capsule blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a high stakes, high altitude test flight in early 2014. A new narrated animation (see below) released by NASA depicts the planned 2014 launch of the [...]

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Orion Capsule Embarks on Cross Country Public Tour

January 27, 2012

Here’s your chance for a birds-eye view of an Orion capsule, up-close and personal ! Catch it if you can ! A full scale test version of one of NASA’s Orion spacecraft has embarked on a cross country tour from White Sands, New Mexico, across several states in the southern United States that ultimately lands [...]

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NASA’s Next Crew Vehicle Will be Based on Orion

May 24, 2011

NASA has made a decision on their next crew vehicle, and now have plans to develop a “new” spacecraft called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced today that the system will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle which was being built to return humans to [...]

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Lockheed Accelerates Orion to Achieve 2013 launch and potential 2016 Manned Lunar Flyby

April 26, 2011

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Despite utilizing just half the work force originally planned and cutting back further on the original test program, Lockheed Martin is now accelerating the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) launch schedule and aiming to achieve an Earth orbital flight by 2013 and a human crewed flight as early as 2016. The [...]

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