WATCH below: NASA tested its Orion capsule by dropping it into a pool this week, in order to better understand the structure of the craft using some 500 sensors.
The capsule is expected to hold crew members during the Artemis missions and beyond.
This is the first set of a number of tests that the Orion will have to go through before both the unmanned Artemis I and the manned Artemis II.
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Liam Garman
Liam began his career as a speechwriter at New South Wales Parliament before working for world-leading campaigns and research agencies in Sydney and Auckland. Throughout his career, Liam has managed and executed a range of international media and communications campaigns spanning politics, business, industrial relations and infrastructure. He’s since shifted his attention to researching and writing extensively on geopolitics and defence, specifically in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney and is undertaking a Masters in Strategy and Security from UNSW Canberra.
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