Posted on 11/16/2018 3:11:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
NASA has accepted delivery of a key European part needed to power the world’s next-generation moonship.
U.S. and European leaders gathered at Kennedy Space Center on Friday to mark the occasion.
The newly arrived powerhouse, or service module, will propel NASA’s Orion capsule to the moon during a test flight without passengers planned for 2020. A mega rocket under development by NASA, known as SLS for Space Launch System, will launch the combo. […]
Orion and the attached service module are meant to fly near the moon, but not land. Future missions will carry astronauts, with the goal of building an outpost just beyond the moon that could enable lunar landings and Mars expeditions. …
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