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NASA Announces Plans To Send Astronauts To Mars In
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The
Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch Thursday
morning. This NASA craft will be performing an unmanned test flight
and will eventually bring humans to Mars.
Today on NASA TV, during a press conference,
it was announced that the Orion will first bring four astronauts at a time to asteroids
which are located between Earth and Mars by 2025, and then
the first humans to red planet in the mid-2030s.
On Thursday’s test, The Orion spacecraft will be
unmanned. The Orion will launch on Thursday at 7:05 am EST from Kennedy Space Center.
After launch, It will orbit the Earth at a distance 15 times greater than that of the International Space Station, and deploy 11 parachutes upon reentry,
coming down in the Pacific Ocean around 11:30 am EST.
The cabin will be fitted with 1,200 sensors to collect information about radiation and heat,
also testing different systems, and the launch abort system.
This Mission will be the farthest humans have gone into space since Apollo 17 went to the moon in 1972.
The press briefing will be replay below:
Watch
The Launch!
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