The Orion spacecraft may have taken less than five hours to fly into space and back, but it will take a fortnight for it to return to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, so Lockheed Martin, builder of the capsule, is conducting tests on the fly. As the 19,650 lb (8,913 kg) capsule designed to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit was unloaded ashore in San Diego, California from the recovery ship USS Anchorage, Lockheed engineers were waiting to take samples of the heat shield and begin processing the flight recorders. .. Continue Reading Lockheed Martin engineers get first look at Orion post splashdown
Section: Space
Tags: California, EFT-1, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Orion Spacecraft, Spacecraft, US Navy
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