NASA Premieres ‘Trial By Fire’ video on Orion’s Flight Test

As the flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft nears, the agency released Oct. 8 a video detailing the spacecraft’s test and the critical systems engineers will evaluate during the Dec. 4 flight. Orion is in the final stages of preparation for the uncrewed flight test that will take it 3,600 miles above Earth on a 4.5-hour mission to test many of the systems necessary for future human missions into deep space. After two orbits, Orion will reenter Earth’s atmosphere at almost 20,000 miles per hour, and reach temperatures near 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, before its parachute system deploys to slow the spacecraft for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

On future missions, the Orion spacecraft will carry astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before, including to an asteroid and Mars.

[austinsmith]

They just admitted we don't have the tech to deal with the radiation beyond the magnetosphere...

[fknfreddy]

3:40 lol "solve this problem before we send astronauts" this guy forgot about Apollo.

[WinterRaven]

Please start using metric in these videos. At the very least, have some subtitles or something for those of us who prefer it. 

[Mitchz]

Try to land close to the space center for full recovery value.

[steventeague]

And I quoting NASA here, "We must solve these challenges before we send people through this region of space" So logic dictates that NO, we did not go to the moon.

[elgroxo]

Amazing video, congrats NASA! Plz send a kerbal plushie.

[Ahldor]

Cool video! Didn't expect this from NASA!

[achmir]

I feel as though this video was geared toward a much younger and less nerdy audience than those who would generally follow a NASA YouTube channel. I'm sure that a lot more people would enjoy videos like this if they contained more scientific information and were a bit less cheesy.

[eyeswideopen]

Sure, we know more about the radiation belts today but how exactly did the first shuttle fly through them with the little knowledge they had at the time, experience no issues and the astronauts lived long lives? How were they able to build a shuttle to withstand the dangers yet still working on it today. The engineer in this video says that the radiation belts interfere with “guidance systems, onboard computers or other electronics”, then how were they able to send images/footages back to earth in the 1960’s. How is it that we were able to achieve then what we can’t achieve today but still working on?

[Thbenjaminsson]

It's indeed amazing how much this new-developed Orion Craft resembles about the key-caracteristics & techniques used on the Apollo Spacecfraft system, all those years back during the good old Apollo Mission days!
 - Tobbe in Sweden -

[markwood]

Nice. I will take two:) Good to see a well produced video that has style but is not overtly light on substance. Doesn't matter what your political view, space is fun and important. I want my grandchildren to be as excited about space as I was when we went to the moon.

[TheCrossroads]

Congrats on the success of the Orion Test Flight. Thanks again, NASA. You saved 2014!

[HAZEYDAZE]

Is it just me or do it sound like they've never done this before?

[esgaton]

It looks like big and fancy "Apollo" for me. 

[truedeadandlife]

It's kind of funny, I don't how but the fact that we still use parachutes.

[ashantaylumpkins]

They deleting all the “ y’all didn’t go to the moon “ comments 🤣

[ClassicCult]

The commulicar propeller is magnitive so expanding in outer wave travels should permit a specific range on mars

[fredthompson]

Glad to see we are going back into outer space with Apollo/SaturnV type methods!

[Bnslamb]

Please tone down the music and noise. And there is no sound in space.

[mistaroksta]

Thought they knew how to navigate the van allen radiation belt safely Seein as this was supposedly done on the way to the moon.or filmed Kubrick.