It's hard to believe it's already been a year. Do you remember that triumphant morning?! Dec. 5 marks the successful first deep-space flight of NASA’s Orion on Exploration Flight Test-1, a test that took the uncrewed spacecraft 3,600 miles into space and safely returned it to Earth. Splashdown occurred later that day in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, where U.S. Navy and NASA team
#divers recovered the spacecraft.
In the year since the flight, teams around the country have taken apart the spacecraft to learn everything possible from having flown the first human rated vehicle in deep space in over 40 years. Meanwhile, teams across the nation and in Europe have continued to make substantial
#progress toward the next flight of Orion and the first flight of the Space Launch System (
#SLS) rocket into deep space, thousands of miles beyond the moon, on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). That mission will launch from the historic launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canav...