Astrophysicist looks beyond test flight to asteroids and Mars
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:00
in Astronomy & Space
On Friday, NASA successfully launched its next-generation spaceship farther than any astronaut has flown since the Apollo program of the 1960s. Though the Orion was unmanned during the test flight, which took it 15 times higher than the Space Station orbits, it is designed to eventually carry a human crew on missions to the moon, to near-Earth asteroids, and even to Mars.
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