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NASA’s Newest Orion Crew Capsule Powered Up For First Time

By Marc Selinger

Monday, August 28th, 2017

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The Orion crew capsule that will be the first to fly aboard NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket has been powered up for the first time, Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin[LMT] announced Aug. 22.The event, which took place Aug. 11 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, “was the first time the vehicle management computers and the power and data units were installed on the crew module, loaded with flight software and tested,” the company said. “Evaluating these core…

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