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July 12, 2013

First Mission of Space Launch System with Orion Atop it to Preview Asteroid Visit
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2013
Managers in NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate have initiated a formal request to change the mission plan for the agency's first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), Exploration Mission (EM) 1 in 2017. The flight will carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a deep retrograde orbit near the moon, a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where an asteroid could be relocated as early as 2021. The 25-day mission will send Orion more than 40,000 miles beyond the moon and allow ... read more

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