U.S. Navy Recovers NASA Orion Space Capsule • EFT-1
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U.S. Navy divers from USS Anchorage (LPD 23) recover the NASA Orion space capsule after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 5, 2014. The recovery operation marked the end of Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1), the first orbital test flight of the Orion spacecraft. The craft, without a crew, was launched on December 5, 2014, at 12:05 UTC (7:05 am EST), atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission was a four-hour, two-orbit test of the Orion crew module featuring a high apogee on the second orbit and concluding with a high-energy reentry at around 20,000 miles per hour. Units - Expeditionary Strike Group Three, USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Eight, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One, Fleet Combat Camera Pacific, and Fleet Weather Center San Diego. Film Credits: PO1 Paul Seeber, PO1 Gary Keen, U.S. Navy Video Released On December 9, 2014 Derivative Works: Gung Ho Vids
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Never showed the interior. Is this a boiler plate test flight?
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Check out a book entitled "Orion 1" by Todd Fries on Amazon.com
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Are those ablative tiles that wrap the whole capsule?
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For everyone saying the capsule is old technology... I mean yea but... It works, and it's currently the most cost effective way as far as the re-entry aspect goes, these are the baby steps, shit might change, give it time.
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Congrats to NASA, having just re-invented the manned rocket. Maybe Lockheed-Martin will be next, re-inventing a bi-plane! Seriously! From space shuttles designed in the early seventies, we go to new and better/safer shuttles with better payloads... oops, I mean back to rockets designed in the sixties? WTF?
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what about Sharks? badass video
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Were there three talking chimpanazees in the spacecraft when they opened it up?
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How did American Flag on Orion Capsule not burn on Re-entry???
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Great, we've built a slightly larger version of the Apollo Command Module, 55 years after NASA awarded North American Aviation the contract for the above mentioned.
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Tried to find video of this thing falling from space, or the splashdown--nothing.I do not believe any sane person would chance returning to earth in a capsule like this. For the capsules that have been retrieved with people in them, there are none that have proof it wasn't staged. Unless that capsule is filled with Styrofoam or Dr. Sholls Gel, I cannot imagine how a person could survive the impact.
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All those sailors standing along the edge of the ship to watch the recovery of America's next space vehicle was inspiring.
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So glad NASA is still up and running :) We have made some great strides when it comes to space technology.
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I would like to have one of those awesome reflective heat tiles.
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I must say this when I am looking at it: WE ARE FAR AWAY IN TECHNOLOGY FROM EXPLORING SPACE...
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the water, the sound, the spacecraft, it's too much lolol
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Lockheed Martin superiority!
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Are the capsules radiated then. Are they full of radiation now that they have returned?
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LOOK BRAND NEW EVEN THE red & white paint lol . come on nasa you have a worldwide audience get a grip ...
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where is it now
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