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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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    The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) is equipped with a launch escape system. Orion has several abort modes. Some of these may not use the...
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    largest part ever made from CMC. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle is a spacecraft intended to carry a crew of up to four astronauts to destinations...
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  • transformation of the Crew Exploration Vehicle into the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and the switch of the launch vehicle from Ares I (with its perennial...
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    robotic exploration of the lunar surface. Three flights of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle are currently planned for launch in the Artemis program in...
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    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. Without a crew, it was...
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    the Altair, Ares I, and Ares V. The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle was renamed the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), to be launched on the Space...
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    Artemis 4 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    Block 2 with advanced boosters. Orion is the crew transport vehicle used by all Artemis missions. It comprises the Orion Crew Module and the European Service...
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    Policy Directive 1, a crewed lunar campaign – later known as the Artemis program – utilizing the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) and a space station...
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    Orion Enters Distant Retrograde Orbit". NASA. Retrieved November 27, 2022. "Report No. IG-20-018: NASA's Management of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle...
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    Space Launch System (category NASA space launch vehicles)
    expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft...
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    for the future. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is intended to serve as the launch/splashdown crew delivery vehicle, with a Deep Space Habitat...
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    Ares I (redirect from Crew Launch Vehicle)
    was specifically being designed to launch the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Orion was intended as a crew capsule, similar in design to the Apollo program...
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    ablative heat shield for reentry and been non-reusable. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle appears likely, as of December 2005, to use a ten-times reusable...
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  • defence, satellites, other networking services and also the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) and Space Station programmes. Earth observation Navigation...
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    "Orion Overview". NASA. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017. "Orion Explained: NASA's Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Infographic)"...
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  • of 750FX is available called 750FL. 750FX powers NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Orion is using Honeywell International Inc. flight computer originally...
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    Commercial Crew Program (CCP) produced a functioning crewed space vehicle starting operations in 2020, providing an alternative to Orion or Soyuz. The...
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    Artemis program (category Orion (spacecraft))
    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 dock...
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    planetary orbit, or the top three of a specific category of vehicle, or the heaviest vehicle from a specific nation. All numbers listed below for satellites...
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  • dictionary. OFT may refer to: Orion Flight Test 1 (5 December 2014), first test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Boeing Orbital Flight Test...
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    the vehicle as well as add a Cupola to the Node section. Orion, is being developed by NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Airbus Defence and Space for crewed deep...
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    since 2013, and on the first flight test (EFT-1) of NASA's new Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle in December 2014. Current plans call for similar devices to...
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    as a major component for the Orion crewed spacecraft. NASA’s Artemis 1 launched on November 16, 2022, carried the Orion spacecraft with the European Service...
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    Artemis 1 (category Orion (spacecraft))
    Space Launch System and the second uncrewed test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The initial plans for EM-1 called for a circumlunar trajectory...
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    various multi-purpose support rooms (MPSRs) nearby. All positions named below had similar responsibilities to their Shuttle counterparts. The Orion flight...
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    the three ESA/ASI-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules Performing more Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions with Orion crews Launching massive new...
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  • "Backgrounder | Multi-Purpose Engineer Vehicle". www.forces.gc.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-20. "CF Engineering Vehicles - Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle - MPEV Backhoe...
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  • attachments of the Orion M with the Orion CM, but utilized a Soyuz-like service module design to allow Lockheed Martin to make the vehicle lighter in weight...
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    Mars. Ares I was originally known as the "Crew Launch Vehicle" (CLV). NASA planned to use Ares I to launch Orion, the spacecraft intended for NASA human...
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