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The Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit - Artist view

author: Lockheed Martin Corp/Novapix

reference: e-exl01-20051

Image Size 300 DPI: 18 * 13 cm

The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module, 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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2006 - CONSTELLATION - ILLUSTRATION - LUNAR MODULE - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MODULE - MOON - ORBIT - ORION - SATELLITE - SPACE -