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The Orion and Altair spacecrafts in lunar orbit

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20054

Date

2009-05-10

The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module Altair, in lunar orbit. The NASA's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars ; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts.