NASA Conducts Media Briefing on Orion Spacecraft Roll out to Launch Pad for First Test Flight

NASA conducted a media news briefing from the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the Orion spacecraft roll out to its launch pad at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37 in preparation for liftoff next month on its first space flight.

Participants in the briefing included:

- Robert Cabana, Kennedy Space Center director
- Ellen Ochoa, Johnson Space Center director
- Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager
- Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company director of Human Space Flight Programs

[robertbrockway]

This is the next giant leap for space exploration and mankind. By the way the payload is huge. Now you can see just how different this vehicle really is. I wish NASA nothing but success.

[Lion_McLionhead]

Watching that took a lot of eye rolling & face palming.

[cpjufzz]

Wow,
1. Important Climate Missions
2. ISS missions Alexander Gerst is back on earth, welcome home. RosKosMos
3. At the moment/In few hours - Rosetta/Philea Landing on  a Comet ESA 
4. On 30 Nov. Hayabusa2 Launch JaXa, later will land on an asteroid 
5. On 4th Dec. Orion Testflight  NASA
6. Next Year in Summer 1st Pictures of Pluto by New Horizon
7. 2016 Juno will face Jupiter
8. 2017 China Moon Sample Return Mission, maybe for Mars then in 2022 ?

And so many more great projects, James Webb Telescope (aka The All Seeing Eye)
is also not taking so long anymore....
Thanks and Good Luck everyone ....
Go mankind go !! God needs to hurry up when do not want to celebrate judgement day without us !!
Awesome Time, everyone enjoy !!!

[Thegrimreaperswrath]

wake me up when we go to mars. though i might b dead by then. not be4 these old fellas tho. u guys are so exicted to go for mars and the end of construction but they probably wont leave to see the day hahahahha