Sentences with phrase «uncrewed orion»
NASA plans to carry out the first uncrewed Orion test flight in 2018, followed by a crewed test - flight in 2021.
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NASA is set to send the Orion deep - space capsule on its inaugural uncrewed flight this week.
EM - 1 is the first SLS launch, scheduled for 2018, which will carry an uncrewed version of the Orion spacecraft.
Orion passed with flying colors and will be paired with the Space Launch System — a next - generation powerful rocket — for another uncrewed launch in 2018.
It is modeled after the Orion spacecraft that saw its first uncrewed test in 2014, when NASA launched the spacecraft into space for a high - speed return to Earth.
On November 8, 2017, NASA released an update following a schedule review of Exploration Mission - 1 (EM - 1), the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to the Moon.
The rocket would carry crews in the agency's Orion space capsule, which has made one uncrewed test flight.