The first flight of a full-up Orion capsule is still officially scheduled for launch in late 2017. The unmanned mission will blast off on NASA's Space Launch System, a heavy-lifting rocket being developed to facilitate missions beyond Earth orbit. The 2017 flight, known as Exploration Mission ...
" Thompson said. "Two of those four engines will then be sent at the end of the summer to the Wallops Island launch site, where they will be used in full Stage 1 system level testing of the Taurus 2 rocket in the fall."
rocketsteve likes this #12 Jethro7 Fly Me to the Moon Posts: 5,798 Joined: 17 Dec 2018 Loc: N.W. Florida Posted 05 November 2023 - 11:12 AM Astro_In_Tampa, on 05 Nov 2023 - 4:10 PM, said: Hello Rick, I went out tonight to watch Io transit Jupiter to hopefully see Io...