First Look at the Spacecraft That Will Take Humans to Mars

Yesterday NASA gave the reality a first look at the Orion , a space vessel that will take humans back to the Moon in 2020 , and then onward to Mars in the 2030s .

If this saucer shape looks intimate , that ’s not because this vehicle is based on something hidden in Area 51 . Orion is based on the design of the Apollo spaceships that strike world to the Moon back in the 1960s . But Orion can gestate 6 astronauts , twice as many as Apollo could .

TheOrion , along with the Ares rocket , will replace the Space Shuttle when it goes out of commission next yr . According to Reuters :

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NASA be after to first take several trips to the lunation , a journeying of just three days . Each sojourn will last six months while astronauts set up a campsite and exercise the things they desire to do on Mars . “ That ’s really the goal — to put humans on Mars , and going to the moonshine is our testing priming coat for do it , ” [ NASA ’s Don ] Pearson explained .

A lot of piece of work has to be done before the Mars missionary work , however . That mission would take 3 years round trip , and will in all likelihood want a much more robust version of the Orion .

NASA take a trial interpretation of the Orion out to the National Mall in Washington , DC , yesterday , after it had undergone a serial publication of tests in the urine – researchers are test to see how it holds up after a water landing .

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