NASA Orion Pathfinder Spacecraft Gets It’s First Welding

Here is a bit more on the structure from NASA’s website:

The primary structure of the Orion crew module is composed of seven aluminum pieces that have to be skillfully welded together in a precise order. The first pieces of the pathfinder fused together are the tunnel and forward bulkhead, which are at the top of the crew module. The tunnel, once connected to a docking hatch, enables rendezvous and docking with other spacecraft, and provides a pathway for astronauts to move between the crew module and other spacecraft.

Here is also a really cool video on the official Orion spacecraft reentering the atmosphere.  It is also from the view of an astonaut’s eye which makes it even more rare.

Commenter Ali is enthusiastic and had this to say:

Oh this is truly amazing. I am so glad we are back on the path of space exploration. My father was a member of the Apollo launch team. He would have loved to see this.

We hope you enjoy the video!

thanks to NASA for the great info

 

 



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