THE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT BLOG: From the Space Shuttle to Beyond

IMAGES OF THE DAY... With its full Launch Abort System shroud and Service Module simulator attached to it, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) continued to undergo testing inside the Reverberant Acoustics Laboratory at Lockheed Martin’s Waterton Facility near Denver, Colorado last week. The MPCV looks huge in the photos below... Visualize the spacecraft after it’s attached to the rest of the 300-feet-tall body of the Space Launch System (above) several years from now. All images courtesy of NASA