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NASA: Orion spacecraft's heat shield arrives at Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral, USA - The component, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is the largest of its kind ever built
The Orion spacecraft's heat shield arrived at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the past hours, aboard the American space agency's Super Guppy aircraft. The heat shield, the largest of its kind ever built, is to be unloaded Thursday and is scheduled for installation on the Orion crew module in March, in preparation for the spacecraft's first flight test in September 2014. "The...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency