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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The simulator crew module for NASA's Ares I-X rocket is moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building's high bay 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The precisely machined, full-scale simulator crew module is part of the hardware that will be used in the launch of the rocket. Also arriving is a launch abort system that, with the module, will form the tip of the rocket. Ares I-X is the test flight for the Ares I. The I-X flight will provide NASA an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with Ares I. The launch of the 321-foot-tall, full-scale Ares I-X, targeted for July 2009, will be the first in a series of unpiloted rocket launches from Kennedy. When fully developed, the 16-foot diameter crew module will furnish living space and reentry protection for the astronauts, while their launch abort system will provide safe evacuation if a launch vehicle failure occurs. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2009-1413
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Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
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Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
Orion EM-1 Heat Shield Offload, Transport, and Lift
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The shipping container carrying the Orion heat shield for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) is lowered by crane onto the flatbed of a transporter at the Shuttle Landing Facility, managed and operated by Space Florida, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The heat shield arrived aboard the agency’s Super Guppy aircraft from Lockheed Martin’s manufacturing facility near Denver. The heat shield will be transported to the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay for processing. The Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on EM-1, an uncrewed test flight, in 2018.
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