The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop. NASA has finally accomplished its first with the new  , uncrewed, on Friday morning. The spacecraft has now traveled farther from the than any other spacecraft designed to carry a crew has traveled in over four decades. The Orion crew module was launched off from at the Air Force Station in  mounted on top of a rocket. Four and a half hours later, the space module landed in the . NASA said this is the farthest spacecraft have flown since the mission 42 years ago, opening up new human explorations of space and getting closer to the goal of putting people on  . Astronaut  , of the last mission, talked about future crewed Mars missions and becoming "a multi-planetary species".
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop. NASA has finally accomplished its first with the new Orion spacecraft , uncrewed, on Friday morning. The spacecraft has now traveled farther from the than any other spacecraft designed to carry a crew has traveled in over four decades. The Orion crew module was launched off from at the Air Force Station in Florida mounted on top of a rocket. Four and a half hours later, the space module landed in the . NASA said this is the farthest spacecraft have flown since the mission 42 years ago, opening up new human explorations of space and getting closer to the goal of putting people on Mars . Astronaut Rex Walheim , of the last mission, talked about future crewed Mars missions and becoming "a multi-planetary species".
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