Orion will be capable of carrying crew and cargo to the space station. It will be able to rendezvous with a lunar landing module and an Earth departure stage in low-Earth orbit to carry crews to the moon and, one day, to Mars-bound vehicles assembled in low-Earth orbit. Orion will be the Earth entry vehicle for lunar and Mars returns. Orion’s design will borrow its shape from the capsules of the past, but takes advantage of 21st century technology in computers, electronics, life support, propulsion and heat protection systems.
The lunar landing module it will mate with will put four men on the moon at one time.
I hope to live long enough to see the day this vehicle assembly returns to the moon. Perhaps the crew will grab a few relics from our earlier moon landings and bring them back.
******My Apollo 13 Cap and pin, one of my momentos******Click on to view close-up.
Maybe that will finally quiet the nay-sayers who think we never went.
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