World Largest Heat Shield Attached to NASA's Orion Crew Capsule for Crucial Fall 2014 Test Flight

In a key milestone, technicians at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have attached the world's largest heat shield to a pathfinding version of NASA's Orion crew capsule edging ever closer to its inaugural unmanned test flight later this Fall on a crucial mission dubbed Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). One of the primary goals […]