Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is being used to lift the Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) for transfer to a test stand called the birdcage. Technicians and engineers with Orion manufacturer Lockheed Martin will begin preliminary checkout of the crew module. The crew module was transported from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. 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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NASA/Bill White
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Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is being used to lift the Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) for transfer to a test stand called the birdcage. Technicians and engineers with Orion manufacturer Lockheed Martin will begin preliminary checkout of the crew module. The crew module was transported from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on EM-1, an uncrewed test flight, in 2018