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Forum: Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic: NASA's Orion Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 06-10-2014 04:06 PM NASA release <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0">[b]NASA's Orion Spacecraft Stacks Up for First Flight[/b]</font> With just six months until its first trip to space, NASA’s Orion spacecraft continues taking shape at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers began stacking the crew module on top of the completed service module Monday, the first step in moving the three primary Orion elements –crew module, service module and launch abort system – into the correct configuration for launch. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/orion_eft1_stacking01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/orion_eft1_stacking01.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center> [i][b]Above[/b]: The Orion crew module for Exploration Flight Test-1 is shown in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell, positioned over the service module just prior to mating the two sections together.[/i] Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak "Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day," said Mark Geyer, NASA's Orion Program manager. "Orion's flight test will provide us with important data that will help us test out systems and further refine the design so we can safely send humans far into the solar system to uncover new scientific discoveries on future missions." With the crew module now in place, the engineers will secure it and make the necessary power connections between to the service module over the course of the week. Once the bolts and fluid connector between the modules are in place, the stacked spacecraft will undergo electrical, avionic and radio frequency tests. The modules are being put together in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell in the Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy. Here, the integrated modules will be put through their final system tests prior to rolling out of the facility for integration with the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that will send it on its mission.</BLOCKQUOTE> <a name="082014a"></a>
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