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    Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists...
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    Supporters of Project Orion felt that it had potential for cheap interplanetary travel. From Project Longshot to Project Daedalus, Mini-Mag Orion, and other proposals...
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    analysis. The Orion Asteroid Mission was a proposed NASA mission to a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) which would use the standard Orion spacecraft, and a landing...
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    Artemis program (category Orion (spacecraft))
    the Moon prior to the launch of SLS/Orion. After Starship HLS reaches NRHO, SLS/Orion will send the Orion spacecraft with a crew of four to rendezvous and...
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    Earth using the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O). The O2O hardware will be integrated into the Orion spacecraft and includes an optical...
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  • hunter in Greek mythology Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first launched in 2022 Orion (character), a DC Comics character Orion (Star Trek), a sentient...
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    Artemis 1 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    carrying the Orion spacecraft separated and performed a trans-lunar injection before releasing Orion and deploying ten CubeSat satellites. Orion completed...
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    announced a proposal to cancel the Constellation program (except the Orion spacecraft), to be replaced with a re-scoped program, effective with the U.S....
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  • Project Orion may refer to: Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a study for a nuclear-powered spacecraft Orion (laser), built in the UK to research thermonuclear...
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    lunar operations. It is similar in function to the US Orion or Commercial Crew Development spacecraft. The PPTS project was started following a failed attempt...
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    crewed spacecraft Mengzhou, a human-rated spacecraft being developed in China Orel, a human-rated spacecraft being developed in Russia Orion (spacecraft) SpaceX...
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    Stage would've awaited an Orion Spacecraft to launch and rendezvous with the spacecraft before the EDS sends it and Orion to the Moon with a crew of...
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  • (2022-11-25). "Orion enters lunar distant retrograde orbit". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2022-11-29. NASA [@NASA] (November 19, 2022). "@JVendl @NASA_Orion We first...
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    Artemis 4 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    fourth use of a Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle, will send an Orion spacecraft with four astronauts to the Lunar Gateway space station, install a...
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  • European Service Module (ESM) is the service module component of the Orion spacecraft, serving as its primary power and propulsion component until it is...
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    Artemis 5 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    super-heavy-lift launcher used to launch the Orion spacecraft from Earth to a trans-lunar orbit. Orion is the crew transport vehicle used by all Artemis...
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  • The Orion space telescopes were a series of two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft during the 1970s to conduct ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars...
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    EFT-1 (previously known as Orion Flight Test 1 or OFT-1) was the first test flight of the crew module portion of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle...
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    Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first SLS launch was the uncrewed...
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    Starship HLS (category Cargo spacecraft)
    tanker spacecraft before boosting itself into a lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). There, it will rendezvous with a crewed Orion spacecraft that...
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    Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. The early design concept for the Orion Spacecraft (then known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle) featured recovery on land...
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    The design is adopted as the Service Module of the Orion spacecraft. NASA's planned Orion spacecraft was initially designed to have an uncrewed variant...
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    Artemis 3 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    astronauts would launch aboard Orion, only two would land on the surface aboard Starship HLS, with the others remaining aboard Orion. The two astronauts will...
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    and human-rated Ares I rocket for the launching of the 4–6 person Orion spacecraft. Both rockets, deemed safer than the then-current Space Shuttle, would...
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    to launch both Orion and other necessary hardware. Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft, launched on December...
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    AVCOAT (category Spacecraft components)
    NASA is using the material for its next generation Orion spacecraft. The Avcoat to be used on Orion is reformulated to meet environmental legislation that...
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    under the Orion test program and the following up Artemis program. These were planned to test the launch escape system of the Orion spacecraft on the launchpad...
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    Constellation program and ongoing Artemis program used boilerplate Orion spacecraft for various testing. Mercury boilerplates were manufactured "in-house"...
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    Crew Exploration Vehicle (category Orion (spacecraft))
    held to design a spacecraft that could carry humans to the destinations envisioned by the plan. The winning design was the Orion spacecraft. Although it was...
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    second. Lanyue (spacecraft) Comparison of crewed space vehicles Orion (spacecraft) SpaceX Dragon 2 Boeing Starliner Orel (spacecraft) Gaganyaan Rui C...
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