NASA Unveils Orion Pressure Vessel at KSC Launching on EM-1 Moon Mission in 2018

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida last week aboard NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft. This 'new and improved' Orion was unloaded from the Super Guppy and moved to a test stand called the 'birdcage' in the high bay inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at KSC where ...