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The Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-exl01-20061

Image Size 300 DPI: 36 * 20 cm

Artist's concept of the Orion manned spacecraft 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.

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2008 - CAPSULE - CONSTELLATION - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ILLUSTRATION - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MODULE - MOON - ORBIT - ORION - SATELLITE - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE -