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Orion is the vehicle that's gonna take
and put the next man and the first woman
on the moon by 2024.
It's the vehicle that has to take us out
of Earth's atmosphere safely across the
expanse of 250,000 miles to the Moon, put
us in a lunar orbit the Gateway Space
Station, and then sit there and wait
while the astronauts go down to the
lunar surface for the first time since
1972.
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Then the astronauts going to come back
up to the Gateway, get on Orion, come
back home,
re-enter Earth's atmosphere, and Orion’s going to the
one that’s going to be get us back safely on the ground. We had to come back lunar
return velocities, Mach 32, and dissipate all
that energy, so that's shape of the
capsule you see behind us is pretty much
the same. We got a heat shield underneath
that allows us to re-enter the atmosphere. The big thing is when you get
inside, it's 30% larger. Orion can carry
four crew for 21 days where Apollo was
three crew for 14 days. Now it's also
taking a lot advantage of technology
developments, where now we’ve got glass cockpit,
we've got digital displays that control all
the systems enable to give that to us in
a digital form, pull up our electronic
procedures and emergency function. It
also has a lot of better computing power
because, you know, while it's only 25
times faster than space station
computers, you know, space station is flying
right now, but shuttle it's 400 times
special that and comparison to Apollo
4,000 times faster than the Apollo
computers, because Apollo computers had
less computing power than we have in our
watches these days. A lot more safety
redundancies,
it also has composite materials were
able to make it lighter. We're also able
use 3D printing to make things that we
couldn't make before, so it's really
really gonna be the next generation
vehicle, that does allow us to have that
return to the Moon in 2024 and then keep
going back every year after that and
make that sustained presence on that
south pole that’ll allow us to do all the
things we need to, to be able to be ready
to go from the Moon to Mars
shortly thereafter.
