SSC Newsletter January 2019

personnel, will serve as a safety standby vessel while NASA staff work onboard collecting test data. NASA arrived on campus Wednesday, November 28 and remained until Wednesday, December 5. The testing areas were restricted to authorized personnel only, but a few of our team were able to watch in the course of their normal operations. The SSC Team also played a large part in the added project work of preparing the area set as aside for the testing. Being marine and maritime-focused, the Galveston Campus endeavors to advance the research of Earth’s lands and seas, but is excited for this partnership to pursue space as well. The Galveston Campus’ vision as a university for global preeminence in the pursuit of knowledge runs parallel to NASA’s mission of the advancement of science and technology for the benefit of humanity.

About the Orion Spacecraft

Named after one of the largest constellations in the night sky, and drawing from more than 50 years of spaceflight research and development, the Orion spacecraft is designed to meet the evolving needs of our nation’s deep space exploration program for decades to come. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain astronauts during their missions and provide safe re-entry

from deep space return velocities. Orion missions will launch from NASA’s modernized spaceport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the agency’s new, powerful heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. On the first integrated mission, Exploration Mission-1, an uncrewed Orion will venture thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about three weeks. The mission will pave the way for flights with astronauts beginning in the early 2020s.

Learn More about the Orion Spacecraft https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/ systems/orion/index.html

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