Orion’s service and crew modules – Finally together
After a 24-hour journey from Bremen, Germany with stops in Hamburg and Portsmouth, USA, the European Service Module landed on 6 November 2018 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The shipment from Bremen to Florida is just the beginning – the first leg of an exciting journey that will boost the spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.
The first service module is a key component that will see #Orion around the Moon for Exploration Mission-1. It will make the powerful burns required to enter and exit lunar orbit as well as softer burns to allow for space manoeuvring and course correction.
After years of designing, building, and testing in Europe, the powerhouse that will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon will be mated with the rest of the spacecraft to undergo final testing before flight.
ESA’s partnership with NASA takes the European effort to the global stage. For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space.
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Thanks ESA from the good old USA 🇺🇸
What can be used as lifeboat if an oxygen tank blows up
I believe we have the ways to produce a healthy origin planet, capable of doing business with the other celestial bodies. I hope that I can supply the mission/missionaries with water, and agricultural products and services.
We all need help, and though it is 'expensive' I feel subsidies can be arrange for those who want to.
#GoSapiensGo
-JDB
A toast to combined awesome of NASA and ESA 😀
That plane looks like it would fall out of the sky the moment the engine shuts off!
Good neeeeeeews, everybody!
Finally
If nasa and esa were people they would definitely be a couple
It really seems like SLS will only live for three flights. There is only funding for three initial boosters in the US too.