Orion spacecraft completed its first test drive in order to carry humans to Mars
The capsule only lasted four and a half hours in the air and took two laps to Earth at a distance of 5,793 kilometers of the planet, about 15 times farther than the distance to the International Space Station (ISS) . The tour was aimed to analyze their systems and in particular the heat shield that protects it.
At 07.17 ( 12.17 GMT ) on Thursday inconvenient that delayed takeoff was presented , as the control center did not give the green light to launch due to wind, forecasters said the US space agency at that time exceeded the security protocols NASA.
Orion, designed for further manned low Earth orbit and go in the future to destinations such as Mars, depart aboard a Delta IV rocket company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ) , from the platform 37 complex space launch base at Cape Canaveral (Florida ) .
Humberto Campins , professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Space Science and Planetarium at the University of Central Florida (UCF) , 6to Power assured that thanks to this advance may know the secrets of the red planet and expressed the first is a test release for long become a crew capsule.
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