NASA Orion Spacecraft: Near-Perfect Test Mission After Day-Delay After a one-day delay due to high ground winds and a technical problem with the Delta IV Heavy launch rocket, NASA had great success on Friday morning with the first test of the Orion Deep-Space Vehicle. The Orion capsule, successor to the Space Shuttle and the first deep-space transport since Project Apollo, is expected to take astronauts back to the Moon, to asteroids, and perhaps eventually to Mars. More: http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2014/12/nasa-orion-spacecraft-near-perfect-test.html | | | | | | | | | | | SpaceWatchtower: NASA Orion Spacecraft: Near-Perfect ...NASA's Orion Deep-Space Vehicle floating in the Pacific Ocean shortly after a near-perfect splash-down at 11:29 EST this morning / 16:29 UTC. (Image Source: NASA) ... | | | | View on spacewatchtower.bl... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | 2014: 75th Year of Pittsburgh's Buhl Planetarium gaw Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director, Friends of the Zeiss < http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/fotz/ > Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] > SpaceWatchtower Blog: < http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/ > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).