After Orion’s 2014 Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), engineers determined the existing materials used as the structural ablator wouldn’t work for future missions beyond low Earth orbit. The 2-D ...

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The processing teams within NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program are focusing their plans for how they’ll put together the first integrated Orion and Space Launch System (SLS ...

The Orion crew module is one of the only major elements not making its debut; its first flight was Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in late 2014, where it was launched by a Delta IV Heavy booster ...