NASA celebrates Orion capsule test ahead of 2024 moon mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An unmanned full-scale NASA crew capsule blasted off from a Florida launchpad on Tuesday in a successful test of the spacecraft’s abort thrusters, an astronaut safety device that will be key as the agency works to return humans to the moon by 2024.
“It looked like a complete mission success to me,” said Blake Watters, a launch-abort-system propulsion engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp , Orion’s manufacturer. “This is the big check in the box on putting astronauts on board.” The 22,000-pound Orion test vehicle used in Tuesday’s abort simulation plunged into the ocean at speeds of 300 miles per hour after separating from the booster, without using the parachutes that would be deployed to ensure a crew landed safely.
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