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Orion and Altair flying in space- Artist view

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20052

Date

2008-06-14

The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module, Altair. 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.