2014-12-05 14:19
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Author: (ed. DT)
Modern capsule is already in space. Lockheed Martin experts over which ensures NASA fired her early this afternoon with the space base at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
On board, no people, but there are cameras and sensors . Orion will circle the earth twice, will be at an altitude of 5800 km; then the speed of 32,000 km / h enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
Then warm up to more than two thousand degrees Celsius; the main objective of the mission is to test because of the heat shield. Orion is ultimately carry people to Mars – explains Ellen Stofan from NASA.
– People do not leave low Earth orbit since the early 70s and for us to have such a possibility is extremely exciting – she admitted. The mission will last less than four and a half hours; at the end of Orion is safe to sit on the waves of the Pacific.
(ed. DT) (IAR)
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