The gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule at NASA's Space Kennedy Center in Florida being moved to Cape Canaveral. – Reuters
Check out NASA’s new US$15bil (RM50.3bil) spaceship Orion, designed to fly astronauts to the moon, Mars and other faraway destinations.
NASA’s new spaceship Orion, the one the space agency claims is humanity’s ticket to the stars, arrives at a Florida launch pad on Nov 12, in preparation for its debut unmanned test flight next month. The gumdrop-shaped capsule, built by Lockheed Martin Corp, is designed to test the spaceship’s computers, heat shield, parachutes and other equipment.
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