NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 11月12日 14時02分

At 8:54 p.m. EST Tuesday, the Orion spacecraft began its 22 mile trek from the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

A little after 10 p.m., the spacecraft will stop in front of Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Orion is expected to reach Space Launch Complex 37 at approximately 2 a.m., Wednesday, and be hoisted on top of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket later in the morning.

Orion is in the final stages of preparation for its uncrewed flight test, targeted for Dec. 4, that will take it 3,600 miles above Earth on a 4.5 hour flight that will test many of the systems critical for future human missions into deep space. After two orbits and nearly 60,000 miles, Orion will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at almost 20,000 mph before its parachute system deploys to slow the spacecraft for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. On future missions, the Orion spacecraft will send astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before, including to an asteroid and on the journey to Mars.

Pictured here is the Orion spacecraft in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Image credit: NASA

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