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November-December 2015
Volume 103, Number 6
Page 376
DOI: 10.1511/2015.117.376
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NASA is developing a new system to take humans into space, replacing the Space Shuttle program that ended in 2011. A major component of that system, the Orion spacecraft, had its first full, but uncrewed, test flight over the past year (seen in this graphic), and is scheduled for its next test launch in 2018.
Infographic by Gary L. Schroeder.
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