The Directors of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States today introduced its new Orion spacecraft with which hopes to explore deep space in 2021.
The first capsule came out of the assembly hangar Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic coast of Florida, based on a 36 wheel crane for fuel, according to NASA.
About 12 meters high, it is expected that the capsule makes its first unmanned test flight in December.
According to the program, the capsule will twice around the Earth and then enter the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 32,000 kilometers per hour before falling with a parachute in the Pacific Ocean, where it will be recovered.
The ambitious program of NASA plans to send the first manned flight of Orion in 2021 to explore deep space and beyond trying to get to Mars.
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