A model of Orion, NASA's next vehicle for human space exploration, awaits recovery in Johnson Space Center's 40-foot deep Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. NASA engineers worked with U.S. Navy divers to test procedures for recovering the Orion capsule when it lands off the coast of Baja, Calif., next year during its first flight test, Exploration Flight
A model of Orion, NASA’s next vehicle for human space exploration, awaits recovery in Johnson Space Center’s 40-foot deep Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. NASA engineers worked with U.S. Navy divers to test procedures for recovering the Orion capsule when it lands off the coast of Baja, Calif., next year during its first flight test, Exploration Flight Test-1. Orion will travel 3,600 miles into space – 15 times higher than the International Space Station – before it returns for a landing in the Pacific Ocean.