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Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lockheed Martin technicians and engineers begin removal of the Orion crew module pressure vessel from its packing container. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for Orion. The spacecraft will launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), an unpiloted flight test in 2018