Saturday, 25 February 2017

NASA's next Orion flight could be manned

The first manned Orion mission was planned for 2021, but could now take place in 2019

NASA may get back into manned spaceflight sooner than thought. At the direction of NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, a study is being conducted into feasibility of placing a crew of two on the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), in 2019.

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