# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/gBo2IdIaMg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11740664-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2013-10-28T21:07:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Comes to Life:  Technicians are seen working inside the Orion crew module being built at Kennedy Space Center. NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight.

Orion's avionics system was installed on the crew module and powered up for a series of systems tests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida last week. Preliminary data indicate Orion's vehicle management computer, as well as its innovative power and data distribution system -- which use state-of-the-art networking capabilities -- performed as expected.

All of Orion's avionics systems will be put to the test during its first mission, Exploration Flight Test-1(EFT-1), targeted to launch in the fall of 2014.

Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

#orion #spacecraft #space #nasa #nasaorion #humansinspace

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