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The US space agency NASA has taken the first big step on the way to Mars, sending into space its new Orion capsule, a $ 9 billion. According to commentators, “trial by fire” started a new chapter in the history of the conquest of space.
During the first test flight of the capsule twice circled the Earth at a speed of more than 32 thousand. miles per hour at a temperature of 2200 degrees Celsius. Orion successfully twice defeated the Van Allen radiation belt, which surrounds the Earth, an area of intensive radiation, which can damage the electronics.
Cameras placed on board camera sent a unique image to flight controllers, everyone was thrilled. NASA announces that the capsule, which according to the plan landed in the Pacific Ocean, 965 km off the coast of Baja California, “perfect” beat all the challenges.
– Above the Pacific Ocean passes your new spaceship, America – NASA spokesman announced commentator Rob Navias mission, when opened, three of the five parachutes Orion, who broke through the cloud layer. Flight controllers in the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and mission managers and the astronauts on the Space Center. John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida in suspense watched the last minutes of the flight unmanned capsule.
When Orion landed, both great joy broke centers. Very quickly forgotten about delays resulting from adverse weather conditions and technical problems and other problems, which they feared.
– Orion returned to Earth – added Navias, after 4.5 hours from the start of the capsule fell into the water.
From the Apollo 17 landing on the moon in December 1972. This first mission, during which the spacecraft built to lift manned reached a high Earth orbit.
In the future, Orion astronauts will even further into space – on the asteroid, the moon, and eventually to Mars. Such are the plans for the Americans.
The data from an unmanned flight test engineers will prepare the machine for future spaceflight.
– NASA complies with the promise that it will invest time and resources in our return to space – says Jack Fischer, NASA astronaut, who hopes that it will be one of the crew members of the future. – Agency doing it again, what has been established: explores space.
The capsule launched from the Baikonur Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard the Delta IV Heavy, the largest rocket, we now have the United States. When a powerful rocket fired three engines and a roar rose up on Cape Canaveral observers felt the ground tremble as beneath their feet.
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