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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Gets Lift on Earth
NASA Space Technology Jason CostaJul 25, 2024Crane operator Rebekah Tolatovicz, a shift mechanical technician lead for Artic Slope Regional Corporation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operates a 30-ton crane to lift the agency’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft out of the recently renovated altitude chamber to the Final Assembly and Systems Testing, or FAST, cell inside NASA Kennedy’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on April 27.During her most recent lift July 10, Tolatovicz helped transfer Orion back to the FAST cell following vacuum chamber qualification testing in the altitude chamber earlier this month. This lift is one of around 250 annual lifts performed at NASA Kennedy by seven operator/directors and 14 crane operators on the ASRC Orion team.“At the time of the spacecraft lift, I focus solely on what’s going on in...
Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft begins attempting out sooner than moon mission with astronauts in 2025 (video)
NASA Space Technology NASA's next moon spacecraft for people made one miniature leap into an altitude chamber for a must have attempting out sooner than it brings astronauts on board.The Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2 is slated to flit all the plot via the moon with four astronauts no earlier than September 2025 — but first, engineers with NASA desire to make certain it is ready for the job.Checking out in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Kennedy Condominium Heart started Wednesday (April 10) to evaluate Orion for "electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility," NASA officials wrote in a press liberate. The aim is to make certain the spacecraft can proceed working successfully amid these fields, both spacecraft-generated and put-generated, sooner than the gigantic originate day.Associated: Astronauts received't stroll on the moon unless 2026 after NASA delays...
