Onboard ride during the re-entry of Orion shows the extreme conditions a spacecraft endures as it returns to Earth.. Orion launched on its first test flight of two orbits in 4.5 hours on Dec.5 - 2014. ... Enable Annotations for Metric values
EFT 1 traveled 3,600 miles above Earth to test the new vehicle. It was NASA’s furthest & fastest capsule mission since Apollo.
The new spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean under its three main parachutes.

Music: Interstellar Spheres by William Pearson


For information about Orion, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/orion

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