NASA’s Orion spacecraft is lowered gently to the Pacific Ocean under its three massive main parachutes at 11:29 am EST on Dec. 5, 2014.
ksc-20141205-jmb0001_0753 (Dec. 5, 2014) — NASA’s Orion spacecraft is lowered gently to the Pacific Ocean under its three massive main parachutes at 11:29 am EST on Dec. 5, 2014. Orion launched on its first test flight at 7:05 am and over the course of two orbits and 4.5 hours, traveled 3,600 miles above Earth to test systems critical to human deep space exploration. Photo credit: NASA/James Blair