NASA’s Orion Embraces Apollo’s Heat Shield Heritage

Credit: Orion crew capule: NASA
HOUSTON—It’s no accident that NASA’s Orion crew capsule resembles its smaller Apollo predecessor. Within aerospace circles, Orion was famously described as “Apollo on steroids,” when the four-person spacecraft and its mission of transporting astronauts to the Moon before 2020 was unveiled by NASA a...

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