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The Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit - Artist view

by

Lockheed Martin Corp/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20060

Date

2006-12-10

The Orion manned spacecraft in lunar orbit. The NASA's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars ; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts.