The third Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) water landing test conducted at the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA Langley Research Center. This test represented the worst-case scenario for landing -- inversion.
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The successful first drop test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) boilerplate test article, or BTA, July 12, 2011. The BTA, which weighs 22,700 pounds (10,297 kg) was going about 24 mph (38.6 kph) at impact. (mp4)
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NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 12:25 p.m. EDT, Aug. 8, 2011, on a five-year journey to Jupiter.
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Atlantis lands at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before dawn on July 21, 2011, wrapping up the mission of the space shuttle program.
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Atlantis launches on the final space shuttle mission, delivering supplies to the International Space Station.
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An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence. The most complex machine ever built to bring humans to and from space and eventually, construct the next stop on the road to space exploration.
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Unprecedented video shows the station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade.
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Endeavour launches on its final mission, delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.
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NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, April 4.
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