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The Orion spacecraft onward to Moon - Artist view

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20042

Date

2009-05-10

This is a NASA artist's rendering of the Orion crew exploration vehicle docking with the Altair lunar lander, contained within the earth departure stage of an Ares V rocket. This rendezvous will take place in low earth orbit before the earth departure stage, Orion and Altair make the transit toward the moon. The earth departure stage will be discarded on the way.