NASA / Kim Shiflett
On July 25, workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida made tremendous progress on the march towards launching Exploration Mission (EM)-1 when Orion's heat shield was attached to the capsule. Re-designed from the heat shield that flew on Orion during Exploration Flight Test-1 almost four years ago, the silver, saucer-shaped component was connected to the Orion crew module using 68 bolts. The work was done inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the KSC Industrial Area.
NASA / Kim Shiflett
Much progress is being made on Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will loft it towards the Moon on EM-1 in 2020...as well as the ground systems and launch infrastructure at KSC itself. The next two years will be a busy period for human spaceflight as astronauts resume lifting off from American soil aboard Boeing and SpaceX vehicles sometime in 2019, and the SLS will embark on its heralded mission from Cape Canaveral as well about a year later. If you're a space enthusiast like I am (you should be... Otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this), you'd know that fun times lie ahead!
NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA / Kim Shiflett
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