Orion Spacecraft
@NASA_Orion
The safest spacecraft designed by NASA, Orion will carry humans to the Moon and beyond. https://t.co/p12N6orQlI
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http://www.nasa.gov/orion 20-04-2009 18:04:43
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European Space Agency's third #EuropeanServiceModule , which will power Orion Spacecraft for #Artemis III, now has its main engine, repurposed from the Space Shuttle 🚀
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Check out @Astro_Reid’s weekly crew training update.
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Sometimes you need a two-dimensional Jeremy R. Hansen inside your Orion spacecraft to ensure things will fit ok in microgravity.
Round one of vacuum testing done and one step closer to flying crew around the Moon✅
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, teams completed electromagnetic testing on the #Artemis II Orion, now in the Final Assembly and Test cell preparing for round two of vacuum tests. More: go.nasa.gov/3QpNmuq
Wishing NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams farewell before they head to the International Space Station aboard #Starliner : just one of many important tasks for the #Artemis II crew last week.
Check out commander @Astro_Reid’s weekly update:
Our team welcomed Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Masahito Moriyama to the Orion Spacecraft spacecraft factory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. We’re looking forward to advancing lunar exploration together under #Artemis ! go.nasa.gov/3U8hziB
International Space Station European Space Agency ESA Technology ESA Commercialisation Gateway ESA France ESA Nederland Thomas Pesquet European technology is powering humankind #ForwardToTheMoon and back 🌑🌍
Four European-built solar arrays, each 7 metres long, provide Orion Spacecraft with enough electricity to power two households 🔌🏘️🏘️
Thanks to these solar wings, European Space Agency's European Service Module even generated…
Being in the vacuum chamber has us breathless 😲
The #Artemis II spacecraft is currently undergoing electromagnetic interference/compatibility testing inside one of the altitude chambers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, upgraded to test Orion in a vacuum environment that simulates an altitude…