NASA makes a successful test of the Orion spacecraft – The Universal

Cape Canaveral, Fla The new NASA spacecraft, Orion, circled the Earth on Friday and returned with success in the beginning of a new space adventure is considered a first step in the project to send astronauts to Mars.
 

 The unmanned spacecraft reached 5 000 800 miles away from our planet at a distance of four and half hours to splash down in the Pacific and flew farther and faster than any living from the Apollo lunar program series capsule.
 

 

 “This is your new spacecraft,” he told the nation commentator Rob Navias mission when the capsule landed on the water 435 miles from the Mexican peninsula of Baja California. The projected future NASA Orion series ships to carry astronauts beyond Earth orbit in the coming decades, after a final target asteroids and Mars.
 

 

 “We challenge the best and brightest to remain the pioneers of space. Although this was an unmanned mission, we were all aboard Orion “flight director Mike Sarafin said.
 

 

 The agency said the capsule arrived intact and that all parachutes and computers on board endured the intense radiation of the Van Allen called cordon surrounding the Earth.
 

 

 The capsule reached a maximum altitude of about 14 times the distance from the International Space Station Earth’s surface. No spacecraft designed for crew has gone so far from Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, 42 years ago.
 

 

 NASA should send Orion so far to test whether their protective mechanisms allowed re-entry into the atmosphere at a speed of 32,000 miles per hour at 2000 200 degrees Celsius.
 

 

 In 11 minutes, Orion reduced its speed to 32 miles per hour when touching the waters decreased by eight open on parachutes. The crew would have had to withstand 8.2 times Earth’s gravity, ie double that experienced in the return of a Russian Soyuz capsule, according to NASA.
 

 

 The capsule transmitted remarkable images of our planet. On his return was videotaped by a drone. From helicopters drop images were transmitted.
 

 

 Three of the five airbags deployed properly, which was enough to keep the capsule afloat upright.
 

 

 The US Navy dispatched two ships to rescue the ship and transported to San Diego, a few thousand miles away. Orion fell about 2 000 400 meters of space provided. Recovered only two parachutes. Once ashore, Orion would be trucked to Cape Canaveral.
 

 

 According to the plans will be a test of an aborted launch in 2017 and a second space exploration in 2018 driven by a megacohete being developed by NASA. Officials hope only in 2021 Orion may carry astronauts on board, due to budgetary constraints. The NASA Administrator Charles Bolden son described the test as “number one Martian was the day”. AP