WELCOME HOME, ORION! NASA SPACE CAPSULE BACK IN FLORIDA AFTER TEST FLIGHT (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, December 20, 2014, 12:19

NASA's Orion space capsule back in Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 18, 2014, after its first test flight.

NASA's first Orion space capsule — which made its spaceflight debut at the beginning of this month — has returned to Florida after more than a week in transit.

The capsule, designed to bring humans farther into space than ever before, flew to space for its first unmanned test flight on Dec. 5 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft then splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about 4.5 hours later, when the U.S. Navy retrieved it and towed it into port in San Diego. Orion then went on a cross-country road trip that ultimately brought it back to Kennedy Space Center today (Dec. 18).

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