Saturday, August 8, 2009

Orion to visit Pensacola, Stennis


A full scale mockup of NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle will be moved from Florida to Texas to continue its testing. But on the way it will make several stops so the public can see the Constellation Program vehicle. After a stop in Tallahassee Monday, the mockup will be at Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. It goes on to Jackson, Miss., Thursday and arrives at Houston Friday. The mockup is used to study the environment for astronauts and recovery crews after an Orion ocean splashdown. (Source: NASA, 08/07/09)