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NASA Orion spacecraft blasts off atop 1st Space Launch System rocket in 2018 – attached to European provided service module – on an enhanced mission to Deep Space where an asteroid could be visited in the mid 2020s. Credit: NASA
The first manned flight of NASA’s Orion deep space capsule – currently under development – could slip two years from 2021 to 2023 due to a variety of budget and technical issues, top NASA officials announced on Wednesday, Sept. 16.
The potential two year postponement of Orion’s first flight with astronauts follows on the heels of the agency’s recently completed rigorous review of the programs status from a budgetary, technical, engineering, safety and risk assessment analysis of the vehicles systems and subsystems.
But Orion’s launch delay has already been condemned by some in Congress who accuse the Obama Administration of purposely shortchanging funding for the program. (…)
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Post tags: Deep space exploration, EM-1, EM-2, human spaceflight, KSC, NASA, Orion Capsule, Orion EFT-1, Orion EM-1, SLS, Space Launch System (SLS)
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