[bcbirdclub] Orion spacecraft to launch in the morning
- From: roger mayhorn <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Buchanan County Bird Club <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 20:55:40 -0500 (EST)
For those interested NASA is planning to launch a test spacecraft at 7:05 a.m.
tomorrow morning. It is the newly developed Orion craft that is modeled on the
old Apollo capsule. This is the craft that will be used later on for missions
to Mars. Orion was supposed to launch this morning but had to be scrubbed
because of wind gusts and a technical problem. This is an unmanned launch that
will orbit the earth a couple of times for about 2 hours then splash down in
the Pacific Ocean where it will be retrieved. If all goes well, the U.S. will
once again be working toward more manned space missions.
Coverage can be seen on the NASA channel and on the Weather channel. The people
on the weather channel did a good job this morning of explaining the mission
and of keeping everyone informed of what was happening at Cape Canaveral.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
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