First pieces of NASA's Orion for next mission come together
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 06:50
in Astronomy & Space
NASA is another small step closer to sending astronauts on a journey to Mars. On Saturday, engineers at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans welded together the first two segments of the Orion crew module that will fly atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a mission beyond the far side of the moon.