Orion in final assembly at Kennedy Space Center

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 08:01 in Astronomy & Space

Lockheed Martin and NASA engineers have started the process of installing the largest heat shield ever built onto the Orion spacecraft's crew module. The heat shield installation marks one of the final steps in the spacecraft's assembly leading up to its first test flight, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), later this year.

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